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The half-life of knowledge in psychology is thought to be one year, so by now most of the famous experiments (and their findings) in the field are considered fl
by hellodevnull 12y ago
The half-life of knowledge in psychology is thought to be one year, so by now most of the famous experiments (and their findings) in the field are considered flawed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge
- M4v3R 12y agoThe very link from Wikipedia you used says that half-life of knowledge in psychology is five years. Still, that's not very long either.
- hellodevnull 12y agoMistype. The point is don't take academic psychology seriously.
- seanflyon 12y agoSadly this extends past psychology to other scientific disciplines. There are many foods for example that have been shown to both dramatically increase and decrease you risk of cancer in well respected scientific journals. There is a strong incentive to find extreme results and too few peers actually reproduce results.