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*Patreon Preview* Decoding Academia #2: False Positive Psychology

Decoding the Gurus

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Is Sciency Critical a Sciency Criticism?

The way in which this kind of thing can be weaponized is to have these extraordinarily high standards, and then selectively apply them to ye whatever studies do not fit. It's just a form of sciencism, really using, er, using sciency like a sciency critique, to make a rhetorical point. So you can be an activist, but you can't musser your data to support your preferred conclusion. I'd idobted just one point there, ma, and i think you'd be completely on bored with it. But it's no problem to be passionate and have preferred a result. You haobe dispassionate in the analysis and the design of the study

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