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Rebecca Goldin and Brian Nosek on Hard Truths in Math and Psychology

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Is There a Relatively Strong Evidence of False Positive Psychology?

In 2011, a social psychologist found evidence of retroactive influence on our behavior. He did the experiments in ways that we recognize as the way you do experiments. So either we need to now believe in ESP, the way he described it, or we need to question our rules. The third one is a paper that's called false positive psychology. What they wanted to do was provide sort of a concrete experience for how these various decisions were made.

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