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One can get quite a bit of popular traction from arranging for one's theory to be effectively-impossible to disprove (e.g. "it only works if you believe in it d
by einpoklum 5y ago
One can get quite a bit of popular traction from arranging for one's theory to be effectively-impossible to disprove (e.g. "it only works if you believe in it during the experiment"). Not much explanatory power though.
- egypturnash 5y agoThe experiment I excerpted his description of seems to go along with exactly that. Experimenter who believes? Things happen. Experimenter who does not believe? Nothing happens.
- astrange 5y agoSounds like we need a study where the experimenter doesn’t know if they believe it or not. Maybe by giving them amnesia.
- egypturnash 5y agoYeah, that's a hell of a hard thing to do a double-blind test for, isn't it?