If you like psychology research say “I’m sure this is much more efficient than the wars or farm subsidies the government was going to use this money on.”
If you don’t like psychology research say “This is an outrage! We could preventing malaria with that money”
Or “mostly the same science funding agencies fund both fMRI and non-fMRI psychology with mostly fixed budgets, so they should reallocate funding away from fMRI and towards studies with sample sizes large enough to be adequately powered for finding real effects.”
If you like psychology research say “I’m sure this is much more efficient than the wars or farm subsidies the government was going to use this money on.”
If you don’t like psychology research say “This is an outrage! We could preventing malaria with that money”
Or “mostly the same science funding agencies fund both fMRI and non-fMRI psychology with mostly fixed budgets, so they should reallocate funding away from fMRI and towards studies with sample sizes large enough to be adequately powered for finding real effects.”
Another way would be to start allocate funding for the replication of previous studies.
Is there a name for this fallacy? I have seen it a lot of places before.
Yep. I noticed that in myself, too.
Yeah, same here. I guess I need to update my beliefs.