The replication crisis means that we essentially have to burn everything we thought we knew in almost all fields, which is taking a while to filter down into praxis. But it also means that we might get some sense out of the useless buggers going forward. An amazingly good thing!
Well, I like to think that some of the things we thought we knew are true. We just don't know which ones, although it seems like expert opinion is actually quite useful, and probably the reason that there's any signal in the medical literature at all (people don't test things they don't think are true).
It's more a case of going over everything carefully than starting completely from scratch.... I hope.
I love the way we've hit on the idea of pre-registration organically. It's taken the soft "sciences" a century.
Hence the replication crisis.
The replication crisis means that we essentially have to burn everything we thought we knew in almost all fields, which is taking a while to filter down into praxis. But it also means that we might get some sense out of the useless buggers going forward. An amazingly good thing!
It explains why we don't know anything :) Now we have a chance to start. Not even start over, just start.
Well, I like to think that some of the things we thought we knew are true. We just don't know which ones, although it seems like expert opinion is actually quite useful, and probably the reason that there's any signal in the medical literature at all (people don't test things they don't think are true).
It's more a case of going over everything carefully than starting completely from scratch.... I hope.