Re:How many medical studies are faked or flawed?
by metta2uall on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @08:14PM
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But work in social sciences will often be inherently harder to replicate due to, for example, groups of human beings being more complex than groups of proteins - so there are a lot more variables, confounding factors, difficulties doing double-blind randomised trials, and so on...
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Re:How many medical studies are faked or flawed?
by eru on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:41PM
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Yes, but that's why the companies like Google or Facebook spend so much time and effort on their social science experiments.
Granted, they are mostly interested in a very small sliver of social science: 'how can you get people to directly or indirectly spend more time online and look at more ads'; but they are very, very interested in getting robust results that replicate well. They are also interested in figuring out how the results vary between different cultures and over time.