The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
The job market right now in the US forces grad students to attempt innovative research with remarkable conclusions. As a consequence, everyone&#x27;s trying to prove more outlandish things while few are bothering with replications.<p>If the field were sane, you would train all the apprentices on replication studies. Once they demonstrated dispassionate expertise with the tools, only then would they be allowed to try to use those tools to test their own ideas, where they will have a strong emotional preference for how the study will come out.<p>If universities hired grad students based on their replication work, not on their eye-popping original research, we&#x27;d have better science and better scientists.