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The average "half-life of knowledge" in psychology is already a dismal 7 years (and has been measured as low as 3.3 years). And that's excluding outright fraud.
by apienx 3y ago
The average "half-life of knowledge" in psychology is already a dismal 7 years (and has been measured as low as 3.3 years). And that's excluding outright fraud...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge
P.S. Ironically, the title of the paper is "The dishonesty of honest people" (it's 15 years old by now).
- crazygringo 3y agoYou seem to be misinterpreting the concept of half-life of knowledge. Lower values mean the field is advancing quickly. Rapid scientific advancement is a good thing for knowledge generally. It's merely annoying for people in the field because they have to do more work to keep up-to-date. :) It's not a measure of things being proven wrong, but more about newer better-predictive theories making older theories obsolete.