We need to think more about how we conduct research

Authors: Gerd Gigerenzer

Published: 2022-02-10

Abstract

AbstractResearch practice is too often shaped by routines rather than reflection. The routine of sampling subjects, but not stimuli, is a case in point, leading to unwarranted generalizations. It likely originated out of administrative rather than scientific concerns. The routine of sampling subjects and testing their averages for significance is reinforced by delusions about its meaningfulness, including the replicability delusion.