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by tqi 1220 days ago
There is evidence that people are pretty good at predicting whether or not a study is going to replicate, so they're not necessarily off Ba(ye)se:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/scientis... https://www.newscientist.com/article/2218843-common-sense-ca...

(in this particular case, I think the fact that this is content marketing is what is causing people to react so skeptically)

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This pretty much highlights what I'm saying. Regardless of how strong or weak this research is, it won't be scrutinized by viewers here, because it confirms what they want to believe.