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How much of the "social sciences" is irreproducible garbage?
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:02 AM Author: The Penis If you design experiments correctly and do the math right everything always comes out like trash. you can't "prove" anything unless you basically hit the lottery. No way 90% of these "experiments" are designed properly and. have measurment validity and resolution and reproducibility. it is always way too clean. noone would be able to publish anythihng. they are just going fishing and making a series of defensible looking "choices" until they get an interesting result. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50090999) |
Date: August 25th, 2026 12:07 AM Author: slept with Fang Fang 90% sounds right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091004) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:23 AM Author: Jared Baumeister https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/ICPSR/search/studies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091028) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:24 AM Author: Jared Baumeister https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/ICPSR/view/studies/251457 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091030) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:28 AM Author: hotel children i don't think it's limited to social sciences. 'scientists' can't even decide whether statins and vitamin c are good or bad for you, or whether black holes exist/do not exist.
most of these people are charlatans. |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:34 AM Author: Jared Baumeister the social sciences are the reason you obey authority in this country. are entire legal apparatus is constructed on social science from the 80s supplemented by Obama-era enrichment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091043) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:35 AM Author: hotel children you're telling me this for the first time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091044) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:35 AM Author: Jared Baumeister how do you think they calculate the unemployment rate that gets reported in the news? take a wild ass guess (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091045) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:39 AM Author: The Penis who cares. social sciences are SHIT: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0399-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0441-1 |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:40 AM Author: Jared Baumeister look at you trying to change the subject (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091057) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:42 AM Author: The Penis You changed it first. The unemployment rate is an official statistical estimate, not the sort of hypothesis driven experimental result I was talking about in the OP. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091064) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:44 AM Author: Jared Baumeister the unemployment rate is calculated using social science. I changed nothing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091067) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:46 AM Author: The Penis that's an ignoratio elenchi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091070) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:47 AM Author: Jared Baumeister you're just low IQ. You've never made an intelligent comment, ever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091072) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:48 AM Author: The Penis Yeah because equivocating over "social science" is the true sign of high iq! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091075) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:55 AM Author: Jared Baumeister what do you think "social sciences" means? be specific (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091083) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:57 AM Author: The Penis You are using the broad sense of social sciences "“anything involving social statistics!” to respond to a criticism about experimental research. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091086) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:58 AM Author: Jared Baumeister no I'm not. that's a straw man fallacy. you're also dodging the question I just asked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091087) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 1:04 AM Author: The Penis I acknowledge that unemployment statistics are part of the social sciences. It's not a big deal. I don't really disagree with you. I don't think social science is totally useless. I just think a lot of the research isn't reproducible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091092) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 1:14 AM Author: Jared Baumeister within the social sciences there are people who quantitative methodologies and people who use qualitative methodologies. You probably heard about the qualitative methodology bullshit and didn't realize the quantitative side exists. You probably also didn't realize that they do statistics better than researchers in biology and medicine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091105) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 1:29 AM Author: The Penis I am talking about quantitative research. That's what reproducibility problems apply to. I agree econ has strong quantitative methodology, idk that you can generalize that to sociology and psychology. I think econ researchers generally know more math than bio and medical researchers, but the research generally isn't more empirically valid. Bio research is generally grounded in physical reality. Econ you can have sophisticated math executed perfectly floating on weak assumptions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2,#50091118) |