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by Panoramix 4699 days ago
I think it's due to expectations. Every single time I read about psychology research there are these glaring gaps in methodology that completely nullify their experiments. After losing track of how many psych papers have used statistics wrongly, planned their experiment poorly or had seriously questionable methodology I have lost faith in this field. It's too much work going through a paper every time something reaches the news.

I therefore make the very personal and questionable choice to ignore (most of) them and go straight to the neuroscience people - which in general have a way higher understanding and higher scientific standards.