it seems that psychology papers extrapolate too much, and even "correcting for confounding factors" isn't enough, if the researchers don't know enough confoundi

it seems that psychology papers extrapolate too much, and even "correcting for confounding factors" isn't enough, if the researchers don't know enough confounding factors, for one. And i think that R and python being popular in the academic fields belies the fact that no one wants to talk to statisticians about their data. It's a lot easier to massage inputs to a machine than a human. I was under the impression we were talking about reproducibility in this thread; therefore my point about policy being influenced by something you suggest is "meant for other academics"