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0 Post author: Will_Newsome 26 January 2012 01:30AM

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Comment author: siodine 29 January 2012 06:52:05AM 0 points [-]

Most of the effects claimed don't exist (far more for repeatedly replicated experiments done by independent groups), and the effects that do exist are mostly greatly exaggerated in their effect sizes and generalizability. That is also true of heuristics and biases.

Do you mean this in the trivial sense, or are you making a stronger claim against the heuristics and biases literature?

Comment author: CarlShulman 29 January 2012 06:58:04AM 0 points [-]

This sense. I don't think the heuristics and biases literature is among the worst psychological subfields in terms of quality. I don't think it is the best.