What’s the rule, that under the most tightly controlled conditions the subject does what it jolly well wishes?
What about Global Warming theory?
So does human caused global warming, so does string theory. Much junk science out there these days.
It’s all subjective.
In fact, arguments exist as to whether or not psychology is even a science at all.
If only 39% of studies were reproducible, that essentially means that ALL psychological studies should be mistrusted.
Well into the realm of ‘soft sciences’, as in marshmallow soft, air-puff soft.
Would love to dig a statistic - are most psychologists liberal Democrats? Remember that is how Charles Krauthammer started in the Carter campaign!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears-off
... The problem of selective reporting is rooted in a fundamental cognitive flaw, which is that we like proving ourselves right and hate being wrong. “It feels good to validate a hypothesis,” Ioannidis said. “It feels even better when you’ve got a financial interest in the idea or your career depends upon it. And that’s why, even after a claim has been systematically disproven”—he cites, for instance, the early work on hormone replacement therapy, or claims involving various vitamins—“you still see some stubborn researchers citing the first few studies that show a strong effect. They really want to believe that it’s true.”
A survey of social science professionals found that 1 in 100 to 1 in 300 was a conservative, versus 40% of the average population.
They often start studies with a radical bias and cherry pick data to fit the agenda, readily suppress studies that contradict their version of reality, regularly promote interpretations that don’t reflect the minor trends or correlations of the study and ignore the left wing bias of results generated by samples of their own studies.
And then there is their overwhelming view of conservatives as either immoral, stupid or evil - and the studies that have that as a built in assumption.
Just think what that does to megastudies!
“Neutrinos pass through anything, no matter how dense.”
Psychology - pseudo science.
I’m against trying to reproduce while going through a psychological test.
“When independent researchers tried to replicate dozens of important studies in cancer, women’s health, and cardiovascular disease, only 25% confirmed the original result (Prinz et al., 2011). In a similar investigation, Begley and Ellis (2012) reported a meager 11% replication rate.
In psychology, a survey of unpublished replication attempts found that about 50% replicated the original results (Hartshorne & Schachner, 2012; see also Wager et al., 2009 for neuroscience).”