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What does it mean about me if I looked at the image and the article headline and thought "scientific replication crisis"? I'd honestly be shocked if this was r

What does it mean about me if I looked at the image and the article headline and thought "scientific replication crisis"? I'd honestly be shocked if this was repeatable. A brief search didn't turn up any attempts.

Majromax 1y ago
Not just the scientific replication crisis, but also the scientific media replication crisis. For all of the p-hacking and file drawer effects that modern research (noting this is an older piece) tries to avoid, the incentives for popular scientific media including blog posts all run in the other direction. Even if limited to just good, replicable studies in journals, anything we hear about via popularization is likely to be attached to a stronger-than-real effect size.
hermannj314 1y ago
We probably are the study..."we presented the Michigan Fish Study to online communities to see which part of the click bait they fixated on the most..."
nonethewiser 1y ago
Im pleasantly surprised hackernews largely seems in agreement this is speculative bullshit.
- vector_spaces 1y ago
  Me too -- I reacted this way when I read it, and posted it here to see if others would agree or if there was some nuance I was missing. In particular I bristle at this frequent juxtaposition of the US and Japan (or "East" vs "West" more broadly) in terms of individualism and collectivism -- those terms aren't well defined enough to not be misleading, and might convey truth in some cases but better specificity would help us avoid wrongheaded generalizations based on old tropes and stereotypes It makes sense to me that there would be differences in how people with various cultural backgrounds interpret art, since we largely know that the way people experience and think about color is different, though
  - eru 1y ago
    It's also funny to see US vs Japan as a stand-in for East vs West, because eg Japan and China have very different cultures; and eg Germany and the US also have their differences. (Or Chile and the US, if you want to stay far in the West.)

Majromax 1y ago

Not just the scientific replication crisis, but also the scientific media replication crisis. For all of the p-hacking and file drawer effects that modern research (noting this is an older piece) tries to avoid, the incentives for popular scientific media including blog posts all run in the other direction. Even if limited to just good, replicable studies in journals, anything we hear about via popularization is likely to be attached to a stronger-than-real effect size.

hermannj314 1y ago

We probably are the study..."we presented the Michigan Fish Study to online communities to see which part of the click bait they fixated on the most..."

nonethewiser 1y ago

Im pleasantly surprised hackernews largely seems in agreement this is speculative bullshit.

vector_spaces 1y ago
Me too -- I reacted this way when I read it, and posted it here to see if others would agree or if there was some nuance I was missing. In particular I bristle at this frequent juxtaposition of the US and Japan (or "East" vs "West" more broadly) in terms of individualism and collectivism -- those terms aren't well defined enough to not be misleading, and might convey truth in some cases but better specificity would help us avoid wrongheaded generalizations based on old tropes and stereotypes It makes sense to me that there would be differences in how people with various cultural backgrounds interpret art, since we largely know that the way people experience and think about color is different, though
- eru 1y ago
  It's also funny to see US vs Japan as a stand-in for East vs West, because eg Japan and China have very different cultures; and eg Germany and the US also have their differences. (Or Chile and the US, if you want to stay far in the West.)