Another example is how to treat criminals. We obviously have made no progress—lots of theory, but no progress—in decreasing the amount of crime by the method t

Another example is how to treat criminals. We obviously have made no progress—lots of theory, but no progress—in decreasing the amount of crime by the method that we use to handle criminals. Vitamins for convicts could save taxpayers' money https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140867 All experiments in psychology... Psychology is really hard to do well. I tend to look for real word data that casts light on a thing because psychological experiments involving humans are so often designed so very poorly. For example, it was found that when women take an interest in a celebrity, they do a search for his marital or relationship status. When men take an interest in a celebrity, they do a search for nude photos of her. This is people in the privacy of their own homes on their own computers looking for something to make themselves hot. They aren't worried about what other people might expect from them, yet male and female strategies differ in ways that fit with historical norms that women are usually looking for a relationship and men are often just looking for sex (at least at first).