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Are haters gonna hate?
- lutusp 13y agoQuote: "To test out this theory, a team of psychologists ..." ... performed a study that's neither scientific nor falsifiable, that tests a nebulous idea so vague that different people would have a difficult time agreeing on what the idea is, and that will be completely forgotten six months from now. Even though such studies aren't science, they produce a huge amount of article copy, and that's the point. But worse, a large percentage of psychology's content is simply made up: Link: http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2012/11/final-report-stapel-affair-points-bigger-problems-social-psychology http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2012/11/final-repor... Quote: "In their exhaustive final report about the fraud affair that rocked social psychology last year, three investigative panels today collectively find fault with the field itself. They paint an image of a "sloppy" research culture in which some scientists don't understand the essentials of statistics, journal-selected article reviewers encourage researchers to leave unwelcome data out of their papers, and even the most prestigious journals print results that are obviously too good to be true."