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Re:Intellectual Humility increases tolerance, improves decis... by lutusp on Saturday March 18, 2017 @02:05PM (#13902618)
> Kind of feel that replication study gets abused as a kind of "psychology is unreliable" argument.

Since the study demonstrates that psychology is unreliable, I think it's something other than abuse.

> I mean, most of our day to day cognating about other people is fraught with unfalsifiable claims, dubious reasoning, and horrendous sample sizes.

Yes, but we don't call that science or open clinics to treat people who also behave that way. Psychologists do.

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Re:Intellectual Humility increases tolerance, improves decis... by xelxebar on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:20AM (#13920252)
> Since the study demonstrates that psychology is unreliable, I think it's something other than abuse.

Your comment is exactly my point though. I suspect that you see the number 30% and equate that with "bad".

However, if 30% is more reliable on average than our own personal heuristics, then doesn't it seems shortsighted to write off every bit of psychology research as "bad science"?

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