Even though they knew in advance of the public performances that the experiment got the wrong answer, they neither falsified nor file-drawered the evidence.
Well, they’re not scientists, they’re entertainers. Their goal was a successful performance (measured, I assume, by such things as audience engagement, media reaction, ticket sales, etc.) Gender-swapped debates just were a good idea and if there was any science there (I’m doubtful: a single data point is not meaningful) it was very much secondary.
Well, they’re not scientists, they’re entertainers. Their goal was a successful performance (measured, I assume, by such things as audience engagement, media reaction, ticket sales, etc.) Gender-swapped debates just were a good idea and if there was any science there (I’m doubtful: a single data point is not meaningful) it was very much secondary.
Maybe psychology research would be better science if it were a field of entertainment, then.
Oh, but it already is.
Just read RealPeerReview on twitter.
Most of that’s not experimental psychology. Nor is it stuff originally marketed overtly as entertainment content.
An oversight, I’m sure :-/