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6 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 20 July 2012 08:17AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 July 2012 03:07:19PM 7 points [-]

This is the kind of thing which makes me wonder about a community norm of taking psychological research (which may be badly designed or prove less than it seems to) very seriously.

Comment author: printing-spoon 21 July 2012 05:38:54AM 2 points [-]

It's not just a community norm, big chunks of the sequences seem to be built on small amounts of recent research.

Comment author: fiddlemath 21 July 2012 08:18:17PM 0 points [-]

Do you have examples in mind? I'd very much like them - those would be highly valuable places to double-check assumptions.