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Have any famous psychological tests replicated?

by influx 2y ago

dommer 2y ago
https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/ten-famous-psychology-findings-have-been-difficult-replicate https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/ten-famous-psychology... Tricky subject by all accounts
acover 2y ago
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- Noumenon72 2y ago
  You can't answer "Have any famous tests replicated?" with "out of 100 studies from the year 2008, 36% replicated" unless one of those studies was actually famous.
  - exe34 2y ago
    > You can't answer Only if you're a frequentist. A Bayesian would see evidence that studies in general fail to replicate, and thus have a better prior for famous ones than 50:50.
    - layer8 2y ago
      As an aside, such lines of argument regarding credence are not in any way incompatible with frequentism. Few frequentists deny the correctness of Bayes’ theorem.
  - acover 2y ago
    True, I'm not going to read through the list and decide if any of them are famous for him.
    - fragmede 2y ago
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readthenotes1 2y ago
I am pretty sure the test of "will you publish nonsense as if it were true for fame or money" has been replicated multiple times in many different fields.
layer8 2y ago
The Asch conformity experiment seems to replicate: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294325 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... As an aside, psychological experiments tend to become famous by being controversial, which in turn probably constitutes a bias against replicatability. There might be a lot of boring psychological experiments with unsurprising results that replicate without issue.
resource_waste 2y ago
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- photonthug 2y ago
  Irritation with psychology in general is understandable but probably should not extend to all of behavioral economics. Despite any problems it still at least aims to be one of the harder soft sciences, and surely more focus on data and models is a good thing.
Aloisius 2y ago
The Bystander Apathy Experiment has been replicated numerous times as has the Milgram experiment.

Have any famous psychological tests replicated?

by influx 2y ago

Have any famous psychological tests replicated?

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/ten-famous-psychology-findings-have-been-difficult-replicate https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/ten-famous-psychology... Tricky subject by all accounts

acover 2y ago

Noumenon72 2y ago
You can't answer "Have any famous tests replicated?" with "out of 100 studies from the year 2008, 36% replicated" unless one of those studies was actually famous.
- exe34 2y ago
  > You can't answer Only if you're a frequentist. A Bayesian would see evidence that studies in general fail to replicate, and thus have a better prior for famous ones than 50:50.
  - layer8 2y ago
    As an aside, such lines of argument regarding credence are not in any way incompatible with frequentism. Few frequentists deny the correctness of Bayes’ theorem.
- acover 2y ago
  True, I'm not going to read through the list and decide if any of them are famous for him.
  - fragmede 2y ago
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readthenotes1 2y ago

I am pretty sure the test of "will you publish nonsense as if it were true for fame or money" has been replicated multiple times in many different fields.

layer8 2y ago

The Asch conformity experiment seems to replicate: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294325 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... As an aside, psychological experiments tend to become famous by being controversial, which in turn probably constitutes a bias against replicatability. There might be a lot of boring psychological experiments with unsurprising results that replicate without issue.

resource_waste 2y ago

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photonthug 2y ago
Irritation with psychology in general is understandable but probably should not extend to all of behavioral economics. Despite any problems it still at least aims to be one of the harder soft sciences, and surely more focus on data and models is a good thing.

Aloisius 2y ago

The Bystander Apathy Experiment has been replicated numerous times as has the Milgram experiment.