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31 Post author: malcolmocean 15 June 2015 10:58PM

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Comment author: malcolmocean 16 June 2015 03:46:36PM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, I was thinking about that. I think lots of people (the students, for example) don't actually know better. But among those who do, yeah, I would say that the incentives are the cause of the object-level behaviour where they're not doing real science, and the pattern-botching is the mental process where they don't notice that they're not doing real science.