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by Symmetry 2355 days ago
The things Kahneman worked on himself all did pretty well out of the replication crisis as far as I can tell. The fact that his findings got so much pushback when introduced probably helped a lot with making them more rigorous. And Kahneman didn't dig in his heels when the crisis hit. But there is an awful lots of stuff that needs to be expunged from his book because it was based on what turned out to be bad science.
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> But there is an awful lots of stuff that needs to be expunged from his book because it was based on what turned out to be bad science.

Can you give an example of this? I haven't seen anything he said in here that fundamentally needs to rest on a theory that could be the outcome of some study, but maybe I'm interpreting somehow differently.

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but here: https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...