One thing I find depressing / unintentionally funny about the replication crisis in psychology is there’s all this high-level drama about retractions & fraud, then you look at the original study & it’s like… “Thinking about God made undergrads (N=28) wash their hands 0.8 seconds longer (p=0.04)”.

Yeah so often the methodological details aren’t the most important problem.

Totally! Like that UCSD study where the least reliable psychology papers get cited way more than the replicable ones. It's wild how these shaky findings gain so much attention!

Me watching other fields read about psychology falling apart

a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor and says not like this .

ALT: a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor and says not like this .

Leading to the inevitable NYT bestseller “Cleanliness is Godliness: The Hidden Psychology of Faith and Hygiene”.