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Beware the streetlight effect: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-scientific-studies-are-so-often-wrong-the-streetlight-effect https://www.discov
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Beware the streetlight effect: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-scientific-studies-are-so-often-wrong-the-streetlight-effect https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-scientific...
Such metrics are easy and tempting but one should make sure that they actually correspond to something that matters.
A similar point is made by Zoltan Dienes in his 2008 book “Understanding Psychology as a Science”: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff_BUhTXEAAZZrA?format=png&name=4096x4096 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff_BUhTXEAAZZrA?format=png&name=...