I’m not sure it’s any more dead than other fields of social science. Which, maybe they’re all actually zombies, but that sounds excessively strong. For example, take the effect sizes of nudges. I believe that the effect of “opt out” policies for organ donation have absolutely massive effects (see https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions/opt-out-policies-increase-organ-donation ). So is the problem that the field is dead, or that it’s just sick with the same diseases as psychology and better work needs to be done to separate wheat from chaff? Forgetting hypotheses that turn out not to hold up, doing more replications, etc. For example, I believe hindsight bias has held up as being real, having significant effects, and being difficult to overcome.
I’m not sure it’s any more dead than other fields of social science. Which, maybe they’re all actually zombies, but that sounds excessively strong. For example, take the effect sizes of nudges. I believe that the effect of “opt out” policies for organ donation have absolutely massive effects (see https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions/opt-out-policies-increase-organ-donation ). So is the problem that the field is dead, or that it’s just sick with the same diseases as psychology and better work needs to be done to separate wheat from chaff? Forgetting hypotheses that turn out not to hold up, doing more replications, etc. For example, I believe hindsight bias has held up as being real, having significant effects, and being difficult to overcome.