Re:Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelev...
by tokenadult on Sunday December 13, 2015 @07:58PM
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We have simply got to remind our friends here on Hacker News that university press releases are almost never a good guide to what research shows, but rather are part of the science hype cycle that confuses the public about what research shows.[1]
Re:Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelev...
by brockf on Sunday December 13, 2015 @10:45PM
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It's good to be critical, but you need to evaluate on a case-by-case basis or you risk never learning anything new.
Re:Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelev...
by stenl on Monday December 14, 2015 @02:41AM
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I did. I looked at the paper and my description of it is accurate, including the reported p=0.07.
Because of the underpowered design, we learned nothing. Underpowered studies are worse than nothing: http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2015/12/on-literature-pollutio...
Remember, most psychology research cannot be reproduced: http://m.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716