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What have scientists discovered very recently that most people should absolutely know ? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I've always considered sciences like psychology to be more susceptible to the reproducibility crisis. It seems if someone decides to pursue a career in academia the criteria becomes publishing, and well publish or perish as is goes.

I think some researchers areocing towards things like prerigistering hypothesis and open data+publishing source code for calculations and using that as references in there paper so it can be updated afterwards.

They're have definitely been a lot of papers where results were later determined to be wrong but is still referenced because well you can't update a paper from the 1970s.

This is hearsay from friends I've never done any serious research or published in journals. As a side note I do enjoy reading taking a scroll through https://retractionwatch.com/

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    Slightly unrelated tirade:

    Background in psychology here: Psychology and sociology are also terrifyingly hard fields to pin down. Any one human's behavior can be wildly inconsistent within a given set of parameters, and ppl evolve across time. Cultural context and social expectations come into play at and individual level.

    Add in individual sensitivities to authority, understanding of a request, general intelligence, and you get massively varied outcomes that may change as a person grows and changes.

    Then, for sociology, pile on group pressures and tendencies, plus group think and group cultural context (I have no background in sociology).

    I truly believe psychology and sociology are great fields of study, that yield light on human truths. That said, from a technical scientific perspective, I think it's nigh impossible to measure their value the same way as you would for mathematics or physics. At least, without finding a way to apply those fields to psychology lol

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