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by taeric 1070 days ago
It is, at least, fairly well accepted as a thing. Name a "fact" that has been accepted as a learning, dive into it, find that it hasn't held up. :(

Some are purely on the popular science side of failure. The 10k of practice was basically thrown out, but the original research still seems good. They never claimed "if you do 10k of work, you will be good."

The "marshmallow test," though, seems completely tossed? Maybe there was something there?

Anchoring and other items? Not sure how well those have survived. :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis looks to be a good article, though I haven't finished reading it.

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Some of Kahneman and Tversky's work was thrown out, but the majority of it replicates:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0886-x

The Dunning Kruger data is also just a statistical manipulation.
Worse: the original Dunning Kruger experimental design doesn't even make sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31119836