Sometimes it may take a thief to catch a thief. If it was written in 1592, Rayleigh was at his height then, and had much opportunity to see inside the institutions he attacks.
I’m reminded of a book review I wrote last week about famed psychologist Robert Rosenthal’s book on bias and error in psychology & the sciences.
Rosenthal writes lucidly about how experimenter biases can skew results or skew the analysis or cause publication bias (which he played a major role in raising awareness of & developing meta-analysis), gives many examples, and proposes novel & effective measures like result-blind peer review. A veritable former day Ioannidis, you might say. But in the same book, he shamelessly reports some of the worst psychological research ever done, like the ‘Pygmalion effect’, which he helped develop meta-analysis to defend (despite its nonexistence), and the book is a tissue of unreplicable absurd effects from start to finish, and Rosenthal has left a toxic legacy of urban legends and statistical gimmicks which are still being used to defend psi, among other things.
Something something the line goes through every human heart...
Sometimes it may take a thief to catch a thief. If it was written in 1592, Rayleigh was at his height then, and had much opportunity to see inside the institutions he attacks.
I’m reminded of a book review I wrote last week about famed psychologist Robert Rosenthal’s book on bias and error in psychology & the sciences.
Rosenthal writes lucidly about how experimenter biases can skew results or skew the analysis or cause publication bias (which he played a major role in raising awareness of & developing meta-analysis), gives many examples, and proposes novel & effective measures like result-blind peer review. A veritable former day Ioannidis, you might say. But in the same book, he shamelessly reports some of the worst psychological research ever done, like the ‘Pygmalion effect’, which he helped develop meta-analysis to defend (despite its nonexistence), and the book is a tissue of unreplicable absurd effects from start to finish, and Rosenthal has left a toxic legacy of urban legends and statistical gimmicks which are still being used to defend psi, among other things.
Something something the line goes through every human heart...