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Re:The foot soldiers behind psychology’s replication crisis by mcguire on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:49PM (#17981845)
I'll just leave a mention of the current state of theoretical physics here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05374-9
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Re:The foot soldiers behind psychology’s replication crisis by tormeh on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:55PM (#17982481)
That's a criticism of a bunch of heuristics we've had for selecting promising theories. No popular theory has been proven wrong. It's just that we've been stuck for a really long time. And we need some kind of heuristics, otherwise we're just going to overfit to our data.
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