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Sharlin 4 hours ago

I'd think the conclusion you should draw is not that "even the famous experiments were not valid, so nothing in psychology is" but rather "the validity of an experiment does not correlate with how famous it is".

d-us-vb 3 hours ago | parent [-]

A direct conclusion. The insight I'll draw from that is that academia gives voice to the results the current zeitgeist finds interesting and believable without properly verifying the evidence.

See also the replication crisis.

wredcoll 32 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think academia runs fox news and cnn but I'll withhold judgement

watwut 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Famous experiments are not chosen by academia. They are chosen by non academics. What you usually find is academics being much more reserved and more critical of these then journalists, bloggers or random commenters on HN.