"What does the research say?"

When people repeatedly ask this it seems they are asking "What are the facts?".

But shouldn& #39;t they also ask:
* Who paid for the research?
* Who performed the research?
* Who was part of the research?
* Has it been replicated?

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In 2010 the term "replication crisis" was coined when scientists kept finding that the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate/reproduce on subsequent investigation, either by independent researchers or by the original researchers themselves.[
Here& #39;s the Wikipedia article on that term, replication crisis.

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Although all scientific fields are under scrutiny, psychology is at the center of the controversy and social psychology specifically.
I find this interesting because I attend conferences where many of these popularised social psychology experiments are at the heart of the message from many speakers providing advice on how to design for humans.
My fear is that designers place too much trust in the work of others, essentially drawing conclusions about how to design - based on studies that can not be replicated. Thus turning the design itself into a huge [unethical] social experiment...

That& #39;s all for now. :)
The oft-quoted ”nudge” example of making hotel plates smaller to make people consume less food is dangerous because:

1) It assumes all people should consume less.
2) It does not follow @R_Thaler’s rule of transparency.
3) It is also wrong. https://theconversation.com/do-smaller-plates-make-you-eat-less-no-74181">https://theconversation.com/do-smalle...
I am however confident I will, for many years to come, witness speakers on stage claiming the plate - consumption causation and then using that as evidence of some unrelated design solution being the way to go.
Another important article, this time on medical science: Evidence-Based Lies.

https://medium.com/@BlakeGossard/evidence-based-lies-1ec8db16cc8a?source=linkShare-77d3f63ebe80-1521827685">https://medium.com/@BlakeGos...
Noteworthy quote from this article.

”News headlines abound proclaiming that new “data” support this or that position. In many cases, these “data” are derived from surveys, which are highly susceptible to basically every bias known to science.”
Another one for the mix, on the lack of insights about cross-cultural psychology and on the dangers of assuming human traits are global and ageless. ht @letterpress_se #link_time=1520615158">https://theconversation.com/how-knowledge-about-different-cultures-is-shaking-the-foundations-of-psychology-92696?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook #link_time=1520615158">https://theconversation.com/how-knowl...
The problem with Science. Good podcast from @guardianscience weekly. https://overcast.fm/+F8mLIo2DM ">https://overcast.fm/+F8mLIo2D...
Another must-listen podcast A Neuroscientist Explains: psychology’s replication crisis https://overcast.fm/+MFGeMgJbg ">https://overcast.fm/+MFGeMgJb...
It’s safe to say that the field of psychology has some cleaning up to do:

”Professor Philip Zimbardo used the media to turn his Stanford Prison Experiment into the best-known psychology study of all time. It was a sham.” https://medium.com/@benzblum/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62?source=linkShare-77d3f63ebe80-1529466849">https://medium.com/@benzblum...
Another listening recommendation. ”The marshmallow test is one of the most well-known studies in all of psychology, but a new replication suggests we& #39;ve been learning the wrong lesson from its findings for decades.” https://overcast.fm/+CuhumMpu4 ">https://overcast.fm/+CuhumMpu...
Please listen to this episode of Radiolab with a walkthrough of the famous Milgram experiments. In this case it& #39;s not about poorly performed experiments but many years of misinterpretation (over-simplification).

https://overcast.fm/+J5QRFk 

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Bystander Effect debunked https://twitter.com/lisaehlin/status/1147818230687420416?s=21">https://twitter.com/lisaehlin...
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A paper mill is a company that fabricates scientific papers on demand. They sell these to people who need to have a scientific paper published in an international journal. @MicrobiomDigest and team found >400 papers seemingly part of a mill.

https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/02/21/the-tadpole-paper-mill/

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& #39;Stockholm syndrome& #39; is a misogynistic invention by a psychiatrist who found his authority questioned. And which was then popularised by the media. As explained by @jessradio in her book about domestic abuse: & #39;See What You Made Me Do& #39;.

https://twitter.com/sezmohammed/status/1252500993972948992?s=20">https://twitter.com/sezmohamm... https://twitter.com/sezmohammed/status/1252500993972948992">https://twitter.com/sezmohamm...
This tweet was detached from the thread. Adding it here so you don& #39;t miss it.

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Interesting and relevant recent interview with @rcbregman, author of Humankind - on @mehdirhasan& #39;s Deconstructed. They talk about some of the problematic experiments mentioned earlier in this thread (Stanford Prison, Milgram) and more. https://overcast.fm/+dcvDvcqYc ">https://overcast.fm/+dcvDvcqY...
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