interesting piece on the replication crisis in psychology, and what’s next.

Lindsay talks with psychologists all the time who aren’t eager to embrace the updated rules, and he understands why. “Our literature is packed with unreliable findings. And I can imagine if you hitched your whole wagon to a concept that doesn’t seem to be a real thing, that could be threatening.” Like Heathers, Nick Brown sometimes shakes his head at the reluctance among researchers to acknowledge what, to him, seems obvious. To continue to defend a system that’s churned out stacks upon stacks of hopelessly flawed papers, rather than to own up to the truth and try to fix it, seems pointless. “I don’t know whether they genuinely believe they’re doing the right thing or there’s a sort of doubt niggling at the back of their mind, but they don’t want to acknowledge it. Maybe the people who need to make those changes, in that deep, dark moment before they go to sleep, they think to themselves, ‘How are we going to get out of this?’”

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