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Comment author: anna_macdonald 21 October 2015 08:21:59PM 0 points [-]

microeconomics) can and actually does do a lot of controlled trials.

Do you happen to know anywhere I can read simplified (layman-readable) results of some of these?

Psychology has recently been implicated in the "can't reproduce your results" scandal, suggesting that a lot of the garbage they generate is due, more or less, to pressure to publish, bias towards confirming expectations, and insufficient safeguards. Do microeconomics trials suffer the same problems?

Comment author: Lumifer 21 October 2015 08:27:33PM *  2 points [-]
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Comment author: anna_macdonald 22 October 2015 12:13:53AM 0 points [-]

Excellent, thank you!