Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong
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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?
A couple of links.
Found... Database for registering economic controlled trials and a (unpublished?) paper that suggests economic RCTs have more problems than medical trials.
Excellent, thank you!