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  • Unreliable research. Trouble at the Lab (The Economist 19th Oct 2013)

    Unreliable research. Trouble at the Lab (The Economist 19th Oct 2013)

    Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not Oct 19th 2013 |From the print edition “I SEE a train wreck looming,” warned Daniel Kahneman, an eminent psychologist, in an open letter last year. The premonition concerned research on a phenomenon known as “priming”. Priming studies suggest that decisions can […]