Re:Are Experts Real?
by QuesnayJr on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:36PM
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Social psychology has a replication crisis, because they had a culture of never questioning a published result. You can see that the vast majority of that article is devoted to problems within psychology. (Medicine also seems to have problems.)
In economics 1/3 of 18 studies failed to replicate? A study that small, what are the odds that study itself would replicate? Note that this claim is restricted to experimental studies, which are usually testing human decision-making on economic questions. This is the field of economics closest to social psychology. It seems plausible to me that the model of "get a bunch of people in a room and ask them some questions" is not a reliable methodology.
Economics as a whole may have a problem with replication, but we can't tell from the information on that page. There are whole fields that aren't even mentioned -- no physics, no chemistry.
In economics 1/3 of 18 studies failed to replicate? A study that small, what are the odds that study itself would replicate? Note that this claim is restricted to experimental studies, which are usually testing human decision-making on economic questions. This is the field of economics closest to social psychology. It seems plausible to me that the model of "get a bunch of people in a room and ask them some questions" is not a reliable methodology.
Economics as a whole may have a problem with replication, but we can't tell from the information on that page. There are whole fields that aren't even mentioned -- no physics, no chemistry.