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Will_Newsome comments on Satire of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology's publication bias - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: CarlShulman 05 June 2012 12:08AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 06 June 2012 06:08:45PM *  1 point [-]

In any event, there really are serious problems in psychology as a subject as a whole, and the JPSP is not an isolated case.

This is what I've been thinking quite often during Carl's mini-series --- beating up on people who believe in magical powers, or on a specific journal, is of course quite easy, but I'm worried that people won't catch the more general and significantly more important point --- e.g., that all those heuristics and biases results that are cited around here, might not be so trustworthy.

(ETA: Also, strange you wrote almost exactly the same comment I would have; I don't think we normally have similar intuitions &c.)