Replies to: It's not just psychology papers
Excellent stuff. It's an even big problem in this age of politicization.....
....researchers go into their studies "unblinded" in the sense that they already know the politically rewarded outcome to the study. (As an example, we saw this in medicine during COVID. The acceptance of less rigorous and flawed study designs in the medical field was shocking - even more so when those who pointed it out were blatantly ignored, or worse, ostracized and silenced.)
The mis/dis information peddled by anti-science sources was rampant during COVID...Baron didn't help
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Agree. Wipe your groceries, maintain six feet of distance, close the beaches, etc.
Wreck a generation by closing schools for eighteen months.
Shameful episode.
It was a truly novel and deadly virus without as yet a vaccine…ergo you err on the side of over
compensation…lessons learned…no apologies.
Closing beaches was very stupid. 6 feet made sense based on all other corona viruses.
We didn’t know how different Covid-19 was for months.
Not sure “wiping groceries” was ever a policy or recommendation. Certainly not here.
Also, the disease killed 1.25 million Americans and crippled millions more. But temporary restrictions on freedom were the real tragedy.
Robustness checks are now almost always included in Econ papers
Not saying that it isn’t a problem in econ, but the replication issue is much more problematic in psych.
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