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Re:Did Our Ancestors Become Bipedal So They Could Throw? by derefr on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:12PM (#12287592)
You're talking about the kind of sciences with applied-science subfields, where experiments form a natural hierarchy with new knowledge necessarily building upon old.

Fields like psychology, on the other hand, need replications—"assuming another result as axiomatic in your own experiment" just doesn't come up much.

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Re:Did Our Ancestors Become Bipedal So They Could Throw? by saalweachter on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:49PM (#12287680)
Why do you think researchers in the various subfields of psychology do not build on each others' work? What do you think they are doing when they read each others' papers and cite them?
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