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Decoding Academia 19: The Smell Test (Gelstein et al. 2011) *Audio*
🕑 Added 2023-06-06 12:49:35 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
The audio version is now ready... a bit later than intended.
A free-for-everyone decoding episode in which we look at a pre-replication crisis paper that suggests smelling sad tears makes men less sexually aroused. Bit of an odd paper but also recently promoted by Huberman. We cover some warning flags when it comes to assessing papers, why neuroimaging studies are sometimes misleading, and also get a little bogged down in a discussion of error bars (sorry!).
Hope you enjoy it.
Full Yudkowsky Decoding episode coming soon!
Comments
brianshmrian
Also... An idea for another Decoding Academia paper: The illusion of moral decline. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x
brianshmrian
It seems like if researchers do find results through p-hacking, then the protocol should be to try to repeat the results with another study just looking for the individual correlations they found. That is, maybe it could be useful to find patterns by looking at different groups of data, but that wouldn't be enough to be accepted as a result. You'd then have to confirm with a non-p-hacked study.
