{"id":74065,"date":"2015-09-09T17:42:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T01:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74065"},"modified":"2015-09-09T17:42:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T01:42:45","slug":"replication-failure-in-psychological-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74065","title":{"rendered":"Replication Failure In Psychological Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* I have long wondered whether psychologists\u2019 ideological refusal to recognize group differences undermined the bulk of these studies. They rarely identify the race or ethnicity of subjects and blindly assume that these factors would not have any effect on the outcome. It seems very unlikely. The replication failure may be linked to this, at least on some significant level.<\/p>\n

* I think two other major factors are affecting the reproducibility of psychology studies, and social sciences studies generally. First, there\u2019s an enmeshment between popular outlets that publicize these studies\u2019 results, and the scientists who perform the studies. The scientists want the publicity of having their study referenced in some magazine, and the magazine writers love having the veneer of Science fronting for their biases. This puts pressure on the research to find \u201cinteresting\u201d results, rather than particularly honest ones \u2013 and this is especially true if the study can be related to political alignments, however spuriously (see e.g. \u201cConservatives scare easily\u201d). The second factor is the biases of the scientists themselves. It\u2019s been repeatedly shown that social science peer groups have remarkably similar worldviews. This of course pushes results away from the unfettered truth, toward an ideologically preferable one. There is research about this that has been published, particularly by Haidt et al. Although who knows if it will prove reproducible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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