Episode 39: Hot Takes (with Robb Willer)
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02/19/20 • 83 min
Yoel and Mickey welcome Stanford sociologist and psychologist Robb Willer to the show, who serves up hot takes about the replication crisis. Did the low replicabilty era in social psychology have consequences for political science or sociology? Has the open science movement benefited from motivated morality, only effecting change when change was easy? Despite intentions, will the open science movement make science even more elitist?
Bonus: Taking psychedelic drugs at music concerts is fun!
Special Guest: Robb Willer.
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Yoel and Mickey welcome Stanford sociologist and psychologist Robb Willer to the show, who serves up hot takes about the replication crisis. Did the low replicabilty era in social psychology have consequences for political science or sociology? Has the open science movement benefited from motivated morality, only effecting change when change was easy? Despite intentions, will the open science movement make science even more elitist?
Bonus: Taking psychedelic drugs at music concerts is fun!
Special Guest: Robb Willer.
Links:
Previous Episode
Episode 38: Is There a Generalizability Crisis?
Yoel and Mickey discuss a new paper by Tal Yarkoni suggesting that quantitative research in psychology is suffering from a generaliozability crisis. Do the numbers and statistics that psychological scientists present in their papers correspond to their verbal claims? What would psychological science look like if psychologists made fewer general statements? Should psychologists conduct more qualitative and descriptive research? Did Tal Yarkoni himself use a quantitative argument to prop up very old verbal claims about the problem of induction?
Bonus: Before discussing generalizability, Yoel and Mickey discuss Contrapoints and her new video on cancel-culture.
Links:
- DEVIL'S TRILL XII: CYPRESS TRILL — Blood Brothers
- Canceling | ContraPoints - YouTube
- Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood
- Cancel Culture Is Not Real—At Least Not in the Way You Think | Time
- Allo Darlin - Tallulah - YouTube
- PsyArXiv Preprints | The Generalizability Crisis
- The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology: The Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method: Augustine Brannigan: 0000202307433: Books - Amazon.ca
- PsyArXiv Preprints | Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm
Next Episode
Episode 40: Diversity, Death, and (Cohen's) D
As Little Urban Achievers, Yoel and Mickey delight in discussing previews for The Jesus Rolls, a Big Lebowski spinoff starring John Torturo as Jesus Quintana. They next talk about the University of California's policy of selecting faculty job candidates based primarily on their diversity and inclusion statements. They finally talk science: What happens when open science advocates veer from their pre-registration plans and fail to reject the null hypothesis? Should we care about effect sizes in psychology outside of applied research?
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- The Big Lebowski’s Jesus Quintana is back in first trailer for The Jesus Rolls | Ars Technica
- Life science jobs at Berkeley give precedence to candidates’ diversity and inclusion statements « Why Evolution Is True
- PsyArXiv Preprints | Many Labs 4: Failure to Replicate Mortality Salience Effect With and Without Original Author Involvement
- The Expertise of Death – The Black Goat
- PsyArXiv Preprints | A Word of Caution about Many Labs 4: If You Fail to Follow Your Preregistered Plan, You May Fail to Find a Real Effect
- PsyArXiv Preprints | Do Effect Sizes in Psychology Laboratory Experiments Mean Anything in Reality?
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