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Crisis in Psychology?
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RE: Crisis in Psychology?
(April 26, 2022 at 12:30 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:  I prefer those psychological studies that are replicable. 

One more thing. I'm speaking from ignorance here since my knowledge of p-hacking is limited. But the argument I want to add is that replication comes at a cost—the more you run an experiment the more likely you are to find a false positive or false negative. Statistical tests are built on probabilities, so replication is like rolling a die: The more times you roll it, the more likely you are to land on your desired results. And I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between a researcher running his own experiment multiple times (p-hacking) and other researchers running your experiment multiple times (replication). Again, I think Bayesian methods can help correct for this because it treats every experiment as informative. But I don't think psychology is currently treating replicability this way. In fact, I think these questions truly belong to the philosophy of science.
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Crisis in Psychology? - by vulcanlogician - April 5, 2022 at 11:53 am
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - April 5, 2022 at 1:42 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by vulcanlogician - April 5, 2022 at 6:16 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by brewer - April 5, 2022 at 2:33 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by vulcanlogician - April 5, 2022 at 4:22 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by brewer - April 5, 2022 at 5:02 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Ranjr - April 5, 2022 at 2:41 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by brewer - April 5, 2022 at 7:11 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by vulcanlogician - April 5, 2022 at 7:19 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by brewer - April 5, 2022 at 7:28 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by John 6IX Breezy - April 6, 2022 at 8:07 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Jehanne - April 6, 2022 at 10:59 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by vulcanlogician - April 26, 2022 at 12:30 am
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by John 6IX Breezy - April 26, 2022 at 2:08 am
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Belacqua - April 26, 2022 at 6:06 am
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by John 6IX Breezy - April 26, 2022 at 10:59 am
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by John 6IX Breezy - April 26, 2022 at 1:22 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by vulcanlogician - April 27, 2022 at 3:49 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by John 6IX Breezy - April 27, 2022 at 5:23 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Ahriman - April 5, 2022 at 7:13 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by brewer - April 5, 2022 at 7:14 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Ahriman - April 5, 2022 at 7:39 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by brewer - April 6, 2022 at 7:52 am
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Ahriman - April 6, 2022 at 10:17 am
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Belacqua - April 6, 2022 at 8:20 am
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by The Grand Nudger - April 6, 2022 at 11:30 am
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Angrboda - April 6, 2022 at 7:50 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Jehanne - April 6, 2022 at 1:24 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Belacqua - April 6, 2022 at 6:57 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by Jehanne - April 6, 2022 at 7:39 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by tackattack - April 27, 2022 at 5:25 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by John 6IX Breezy - April 27, 2022 at 5:49 pm
RE: Crisis in Psychology? - by John 6IX Breezy - April 27, 2022 at 8:33 pm

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