economics is not a hard science - eviltoast
  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    And even psychology is extremely dubious. Just look at the recent Stanford scandal, and the replication crisis a few year ago…

    Unfortunately, publication pressure turned psychology into total junk. You can’t really believe anything unless several other institutions replicated the experiments (and good luck getting funding for that).

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      1 year ago

      You can’t really believe anything unless several other institutions replicated the experiments (and good luck getting funding for that.)

      Shouldn’t that be the case with every scientific discipline?