Grant: Exact replications in social science are nearly impossible to achieve
Adam Grant · #22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind · Sep 21, 2017 · at 1:16:04
Adam Grant critiques the framing of the replication crisis in psychology, arguing that effects are highly conditional on specific participant traits and boundary conditions.
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“The odds that you're going to find the exact same effect with a different group of people who don't have an identical distribution of traits are pretty close to zero in my opinion.”
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