How to Evaluate Research & EA Origin Story

This episode features:


-A quiz to test your intuitions about which studies replicate and
which don’t


-An effective altruist origin story


-Heuristics for evaluating scientific research


-The role of incentives in the replication crisis


-What should your prior be for whether research will replicate


-Which subfield of psychology has the worst replication rate


-Why it’s a mistake to conceptualize glucose as a willpower
resource


-Problems with interpreting studies of the dictator game


 


Full transcript


 


-References-


Did It Replicate?:


Baker, M. (2016). 1,500 scientists lift the lid on
reproducibility. Nature News, 533(7604), 452.


de Bloom, J., Ritter, S., Kühnel, J., Reinders, J., & Geurts,
S. (2014). Vacation from work: A ‘ticket to creativity’?: The
effects of recreational travel on cognitive flexibility and
originality. Tourism Management, 44, 164-171.


Kurzban, R. (2010). Does the brain consume additional glucose
during self-control tasks?. Evolutionary Psychology, 8(2),
147470491000800208.


Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the
reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251),
aac4716.


Winking, J., & Mizer, N. (2013). Natural-field dictator game
shows no altruistic giving. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(4),
288-293.


Replication attempt 1


Replication attempt 2


Replication attempt 3


Replication attempt 4


Replication attempt 5


Replication attempt 6


How to Build Your CV


Story Time:


The mechanics of my recent productivity by Nate Soares


On saving the world by Nate Soares


Check This Rec:


Bloom, P. (2017). Against empathy: The case for rational
compassion. Random House.