What's wrong with social science and how to fix it
&gt; Even if all the statistical, p-hacking, publication bias, etc. issues were fixed, we&#x27;d still be left with a ton of ad-hoc hypotheses based, at best, on (WEIRD) folk intuitions.<p>This is the quiet part which most social scientists, particularly psychologists, don&#x27;t want to discuss or admit: WEIRD [0] selection bias massively distorts which effects are inherent to humans and which are socially learned. You&#x27;ll hear people today crowing about how Big Five [1] is globally reproducible, but never explaining <i>why</i>, and never questioning whether personality traits are shaped by society; it&#x27;s hard not to look at them as we look today at Freudians and Jungians, arrogantly wrong about how people think.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Psychology#WEIRD_bias" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Psychology#WEIRD_bias</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Big_Five_personality_traits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Big_Five_personality_traits</a>