beoShaffer comments on [link]Mass replication of Psychology articles planed. - Less Wrong

25 Post author: beoShaffer 18 April 2012 04:13PM

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Comment author: beoShaffer 19 April 2012 02:16:15PM 4 points [-]

Finding participants is already one of the biggest bottlenecks in psychology research, and it would get worse in shend's scenario, because the supply of participants is fairly inelastic.

Comment author: gwern 19 April 2012 08:08:24PM 3 points [-]

The supply of participants, to a great extent, is the students, so there's something kind of cannibalistic there...