A landmark 2015 report that cast doubt on the results of dozens of published psychology studies has exposed deep divisions in the field, serving as a reality check for many working researchers but as an affront to others who continue to insist the original research was sound.
On Thursday, a group of four researchers publicly challenged the report, arguing that it was statistically flawed and, as a result, wrong.The 2015 report, called the Reproducibility Project, found that less than 40 studies in a sample of 100 psychology papers in leading journals held up when retested by an independent team. The new critique by the four researchers countered that when that team’s statistical methodology was adjusted, the rate was closer to 100 percent.
New Critique Sees Flaws in Landmark Analysis of Psychology Studies - The New York Times - 0 views
Why Has Columbia Rape Accuser Emma Sulkowicz Made a Sex Video? - The Daily Beast - 0 views
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But when you turn a personal experience into a public spectacle and declare it art, you invite criticism. Part of performing is being judged and critiqued on the merits and quality of that performance.Performance art pieces like Sulkowicz’s video often intend to make a statement, but they transcend art when the artist demands that there’s a right and wrong way to interpret her piece.
We are more rational than those who nudge us - Steven Poole - Aeon - 3 views
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We are told that we are an irrational tangle of biases, to be nudged any which way. Does this claim stand to reason?
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A culture that believes its citizens are not reliably competent thinkers will treat those citizens differently to one that respects their reflective autonomy. Which kind of culture do we want to be? And we do have a choice. Because it turns out that the modern vision of compromised rationality is more open to challenge than many of its followers accept.
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Modern skepticism about rationality is largely motivated by years of experiments on cognitive bias.
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"God hates Renoir": He sucks at painting, and this is why you should care - Salon.com - 0 views
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A 19th-century French impressionist artist who perished almost a century ago is the world’s leading aesthetic terrorist; you just don’t know it.Fortunately, the Renoir Sucks at Painting (RSAP) movement is here to change that.
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t the core of RSAP’s serious political critiques are Eurocentric aesthetics and beauty standards and the domination of art museums by white men. “If the problems with Eurocentricity were personified in a man, Renoir would be the disgusting” embodiment, Geller insisted.Geller did not mince words: “Renoir is the most pulsating, puss-ridden boil which is the most blatant essence of the problem,” he added.“The fact that this utter charlatan can get by the watchmen defending the high altar of art is the proof positive that the system is broken, and that, for far too long, these decisions have been made by people who have access to fancy art educations and pursue them with an eye toward dictating taste,” Geller explained.
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