PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diederik Stapel, Replication Crisis, Precognition
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Identify and define some specific problems of intuition that science involves. When he gives 2 or 3 thing in a list: know the difference bt them, examples of each and their definitions. An unbelievable study o esp and precognition- the ability to predict something is going to happen before it happens. A problematic case of fraud o diederik stapel- faked most of his studies. Systematic problems with replication o took 100 studies that had already been published and replicated them. About 37% of the studies got the same results + replicated. Effect size- how big of an effect a study has. Science is esteemed o people think science has a valuable answer o scientifically proven is supposed to convince you that something will work. Science is better than the alternatives o alternatives. Someone would tell you this is the way the world works . Intuition- guessing or developing theories that are not well thought through.
