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"WSJ Opinion – Studies Are Usually Bunk, Study Shows

If a conclusion sounds wrong to you, you’re probably not a hung-over grad student.

By Andy Kessler
Aug. 13, 2017

An interesting detail went overlooked in the fury over fired Google engineer James Damore’s “diversity memo.” 
At the end of the document he calls for an end to mandatory “Unconscious Bias training.” 
Large corporations often force employees into re-education classes, this one a dull, hourlong, 41-slide seminar supported by study after study. 
Can these studies be trusted? 
Doubtful. 
Hands down, the two most dangerous words in the English language today are “studies show.”

The world is inundated with the manipulation of flighty studies to prove some larger point about mankind in the name of behavioral science. 
Pop psychologists have churned out mountains of books proving some intuitive point that turns out to be wrong. 
It’s “sciencey,” with a whiff of (false) authenticity.

...Many of the studies quoted in newspaper articles and pop-psychology books are one-offs anyway. 
In August 2015, the Center for Open Science published a study in which 270 researchers spent four years trying to reproduce 100 leading psychology experiments. 
They successfully replicated only 39..."

Mr. Kessler writes on technology and markets for the Journal.

Appeared in the August 14, 2017, print edition.
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