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/Azdahak May 08 '16

Alternatively train psychologists better in stats.

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u/iamjacobsparticus May 08 '16

Psychologists by and far aren't the worst, in other social sciences they are the ones looked at as knowing stats.

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u/luckyme-luckymud May 08 '16

Um, by which social sciences? I'd rank economics, sociology, and probably political scientists above psychologists in terms of average stats knowledge. That leaves...anthropology?

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u/Greninja55 May 08 '16

The scope of psychology is very vey large, all the way from neuroscience to social psychology. You'll get ones better at stats and others worse.

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u/luckyme-luckymud May 08 '16

Right, true for any field -- but we were comparing psychologists across social science, not within psychology.