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Re:Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? A study... by nitwit005 on Saturday April 08, 2023 @05:46PM (#35497952)
> And many of those studies were used to justify trillions of dollars in federal spending over the past few decades

Can you clarify where you beleive trillions were spent as a result of bogus social research?

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Re:Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? A study... by KingMob on Monday April 10, 2023 @12:48AM (#35509275)
Probably tough for psych research, but trivially easy for biomedical research, which has one or two orders of magnitude more money involved.

HN loves to critique psych research without understanding that once you're above chemistry in the complexity hierarchy, these problems are everywhere.

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