Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”

Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ... by hannob on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:34PM (#15230122)

Large parts of psychology research of the past couple of decades turned out to be crap. ("non-reproducible" in scientific terms, but "crap" is close enough.)

Kahneman has defended much of this research in the past. But at least he's smart enough to recognize his mistakes, which cannot be said about many of his colleagues.

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Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ... by corn_dog on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:07PM (#15231869)

Or famous enough to be able to do so at no real to cost himself.

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Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ... by kenjackson on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:03PM (#15230626)

Is it limited to priming or is it a bunch of other parts of psychology too?

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Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ... by drivers99 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:56PM (#15231696)

There were some problems last year reproducing ego depletion despite its prominence for the last couple decades.[1][2]

Personally, I run across the concept a lot in popular books and articles that I read (from before the controversy), so it presents a problem for me in whether to believe them if it's not actually true.

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/07/31/en...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_...

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