I want students to see examples of how shoddy research gets hyped and trace it back to the underlying work. For an undergraduate seminar, looking for suggestions for take-downs of popular psychology claims, based on critiquing the underlying flawed research. Below are the suitable ones I have so far.
"Compared to what?" is one theme I have; it's my phrase for highlighting that one always needs to think about the control/comparison condition and the possibilty of confounds.
Alex Holcombe
@alexh@fediscience.org
Science do-er and reformer in Sydney, Australia. human object tracking book: https:// tracking.whatanimalssee.com/in tro.html#summary Biases include @ siminevazire (for), cats (against). # metascience # perception # visualattention
fediscience.org
Alex Holcombe
@alexh@fediscience.org
Science do-er and reformer in Sydney, Australia. human object tracking book: https:// tracking.whatanimalssee.com/in tro.html#summary Biases include @ siminevazire (for), cats (against). # metascience # perception # visualattention
fediscience.org
@alexh@fediscience.org
·
Mar 03, 2026
10
5
14
Conversation (5)
Showing 0 of 5 cached locally.
Syncing comments from the remote thread. 5 more replies are still loading.
Loading comments...