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Re:Ego depletion theory may have been debunked by cJ0th on Monday March 07, 2016 @05:24PM (#11242243)
> The best (and only) thing to do now is to come completely clean and develop new and much more rigorous standards for determining both correlation and causality.

The question then would be who would want to provide funds for that? It is not the financial backers who have problems with the current methods.

I don't think the butter vs margarine or the tea vs coffee debate will be settled within my lifetime ;)

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Re:Ego depletion theory may have been debunked by Retra on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:51PM (#11243274)
Funding isn't really a barrier to that solution. In fact, it's part of the problem. Besides, I'd wager that most people who do great work don't make as much as they are worth, and so progress is the work of passionate partial-volunteers.
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