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There are probably 100 times more scientists doing research than in the 1920's and the technological means for research are incomparably more advanced, so in th
by ThePhysicist 5y ago
There are probably 100 times more scientists doing research than in the 1920's and the technological means for research are incomparably more advanced, so in that regard we're definitely moving at a much faster pace.
Progress in fields like physics is definitely more incremental though as compared to e.g. the first half of the last century when the foundations of modern physics were laid (quantum mechanis, special and general relativity, quantum field theory, ...). Then again, there are many "small" cracks that start showing up in various theories (dark matter & dark energy being one), so I hope we'll soon discover something as groundbreaking as general relativity or quantum mechanics that explains some of them and makes the universe even more interesting.
- merpnderp 5y agoBut what about the replication crisis? Was there such a crisis in the 1920's? Because the motivations for things like p-hacking all point at something broken in science.
- dredmorbius 5y agoIf one wants to limit focus only to the field of psychology, there's been a very long history of exceedingly flawed theory and experimentation, dating to the 19th century.
- YetAnotherNick 5y agoBack then we didn't need replication. If Freud approved it, it was correct. BTW this is only half joke. He is still the most cited researcher ever.