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A review by agnexperience
Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
5.0
Extremely informative and well argued. I would suggest it to anyone who has any contact with science in their daily life (so... everyone). I loved the examples and statistics and that it's at the same time really approachable. For the layperson, it's pretty shocking to hear how null results and replication studies have been treated by even reputable journals.
There are a bunch of solutions offered at the end.
The only downside is that if an aspiring scientist were to read this book, they might throw in the towel before they even start. It sort of implies that it is basically impossible to do anything worthwhile in the sort of sets of study participants that junior level scientists have access to (alas, the dreaded P-value). Not being able to use your own ideas before you get that million-dollar grant after years of being small cog may discourage some. It's not the romantic ideal. But I guess it's for the best.
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“Science, the discipline in which we should find the harshest scepticism, the most pin-sharp rationality and the hardest-headed empiricism, has become home to a dizzying array of incompetence, delusion, lies and self-deception.”
There are a bunch of solutions offered at the end.
The only downside is that if an aspiring scientist were to read this book, they might throw in the towel before they even start. It sort of implies that it is basically impossible to do anything worthwhile in the sort of sets of study participants that junior level scientists have access to (alas, the dreaded P-value). Not being able to use your own ideas before you get that million-dollar grant after years of being small cog may discourage some. It's not the romantic ideal. But I guess it's for the best.
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“Science, the discipline in which we should find the harshest scepticism, the most pin-sharp rationality and the hardest-headed empiricism, has become home to a dizzying array of incompetence, delusion, lies and self-deception.”