lecture 1

Question 1

diff between applied and basic problems

Answer 1

basic: trying to know more, but not trying to solve a problem

applied: apply it to solve a real world problem

Question 2

what launched the reproducibility crisis

Answer 2

Daryl Bem - Feeling the future study

nobody could reproduce his data

Question 3

explain file drawer effect

Answer 3

having 50 participants but only using 8 of their data, as they follow the finding you are looking for

you left 42 people in the file drawer!

Question 4

what’s better, research or experience?

Answer 4

research

Question 5

ways that intuition can be biased

Answer 5

swayed by a good story
being persuaded by what easily comes to mind (availability heuristic)
failing to think about what we can’t see (present bias)
focusing on evidence we like best (confirmation bias)
bias blind spot
trusting ppl bc they seem trustworthy

Question 6

translational research

Answer 6

use of lessons from basic research to develop
and test applications in real world

bridge between applied n basic

Question 7

why is research better than experience?

Answer 7

experience has no comparison group and there can be confounds

research is probabilistic (findings not expected to explain all cases all the time)