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COVxy posted...

I know it's not the point of your post, but it's interesting to think about psychology's role in this. The brunt of the criticism regarding reproducibility has been taken to the face of psychology, despite the fact that reproducibility rates in other typically 'harder' fields have been shown to be similar or worse, and that psychology is the discipline heading the primary work in addressing reproducibility.

Think about that for a second, the moment a field starts to try to address this issue that is an intersection of the culture of science with abuse of statistics, it gets branded as fake!

I always found that fascinating. I got so much more of an in-depth understanding of the philosophy of science and a more rigorous background in scientific methods doing an undergraduate in psychology than in any of my medicine prerequisites.

It's almost like science got "taken for granted" in the fields we have more faith in and we lost sight of how human systems when it comes to economics and politics can lead to bad science. I find it hilarious how people take medical science as hard fact a lot of the times, when it has just as many limitations as psychological research. It's not like we're doing nazi-style experimentation on people. We rely on retrospective study and outcomes-based research and people assume it's as solid as colliding particles.

*shrug*
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