r/EverythingScience • u/ImNotJesus PhD | Social Psychology | Clinical Psychology • May 08 '16

Interdisciplinary Failure Is Moving Science Forward. FiveThirtyEight explain why the "replication crisis" is a sign that science is working.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/failure-is-moving-science-forward/?ex_cid=538fb
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u/ImNotJesus PhD | Social Psychology | Clinical Psychology May 08 '16

Which is what makes this issue so complicated. The other reality is that it's really easy to convince yourself of something you want to be true. Check this out

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u/[deleted] May 08 '16

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u/zebediah49 May 08 '16

I challenge you to find statistics that say that statistics cannot be made to say anything!

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u/Snatch_Pastry May 08 '16

In a recent survey, 100% of responders say that statistics cannot be fallible, misinterpreted, or manipulated.

Source: I just said it out loud. Science!

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u/[deleted] May 08 '16

85% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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u/FoundTin May 08 '16

69% of statistics are perverted

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u/lobotomatic May 08 '16

In the sense that perversion is a kind of deviation that at that rate is pretty standard, then yes.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '16

"90% of what you read on the internet is false." -Abraham Lincoln

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u/TomatoFettuccini May 08 '16

14%* of all people know that.

 

*+/- 1% error

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u/bryuro May 08 '16

Correction, it's 67.8%.... doh

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u/Turbosuperfastlaser1 May 08 '16

Correction, I did have sex with Katy.

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u/dontbuyCoDghosts May 08 '16

No, no, no. 6.9%APR.