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In academia, the model that we are taught; that we are told in most fields - not the arts, and not the experimental sciences either - but many, many fields, [the model] is:
- You have an idea,
- You accumulate everything that anyone has ever written about that idea,
- You become familiar with what everyone has already said about it,
- And from there, you cobble together the pieces: the evidence either for or against your [idea], or you just review what they've done and you create something tha
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If we take a science such as experimental physics, where studies tend to have high statistical power, methods are well defined and de facto preregistered, then the failure to reproduce a previous result is considered a major cause for concern. But in a weaker science where lax statistical standards and questionable research practices are the norm, attempts to reproduce prior work will often fail, and it should therefore come as no surprise that retraction is rare.
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― The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice
― The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice
