Re:Our Brains See Men as Whole and Women as Parts
by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:11PM
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In particular, from Norvig's page:
"As another example, many psychology experiments are run on volunteer college students. Often an experimenter gets a result from such an experiment and claims it is valid across all people, but later finds out that the result only holds for (a) people roughly 20 years old or (b) people with the skills and dedication necessary to be a college student or (c) the type of people who like to volunteer for things."
Re:Our Brains See Men as Whole and Women as Parts
by stfu on Friday July 27, 2012 @03:01PM
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I would definitely want to see replication of the result by other researchers, published in better journals
Is there any chance that this is going to happen? From my experience of reading (more social science) oriented journals it seems super rare that someone is actually interested in replicating someone else's results.
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/three-more-r...
so of all the relevant journals, I especially doubt the acumen of its editors and peer reviewers. Before I would believe a finding like this, I would check it against the full checklist "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"
http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
by Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, and I would definitely want to see replication of the result by other researchers, published in better journals, with lots of critique and refinement of the experimental method before accepting this finding as a fact about the external world of how most people's brains work.