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| The best research in social psychology is as well-supported as anything in physics or biology Nope.

• mikevm 12y ago
  I am not sure why you are being downvoted, as the author himself first says: The best research in social psychology is as well-supported as anything in physics or biology, and much more intuitively comprehensible. And then he follows it up with: Social psychology experiments in the laboratory tend to throw up spectacular mind-boggling effects. Many of these fail to replicate and are later discredited. The ones that do replicate are not always generalizable – sometimes an even slightly different situation will remove the effect or create exactly the opposite effect. The effects that remain robust in the laboratory may be too short-lasting or too specific to have any importance in real life. And the ones that do matter in real life may respond unpredictably or even paradoxically to attempts to control them.
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  • taber 12y ago
    He was downvoted due to lack of evidence and his casual dismissal of a point in the article. This isn't reddit, as easy as it is to see an unsubstantiated point in the OP and reply with an equally baseless retort, it doesn't help any of us learn more. Your comment, on the other hand does point out apparent contradictions in the OP, and thus is useful
• WalterSear 12y ago
  Former social scientist here. Can confirm.
  • postnihilism 12y ago
    On HN yes, but if this were reddit you might negate.