Re:We need more goat sacrifices
by tptacek on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:51AM
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This seems like a super important corrective, but I don't see the agenda you're seeing. The article concludes by arguing we need to do lots more stuff, and suggests that people whose takeaway from the article is "stop doing social science interventions" should take the place of the goats in the sacrifices.
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Re:We need more goat sacrifices
by titanomachy on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:44PM
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It does somewhat undermine another point of the article, which is that since almost all of our interventions are ineffective we need to invest more in understanding which ones actually work.
It's a bit discouraging that there's no clear answer to that question even on this relatively well-studied intervention.