SH60: Negligence and Hype in Science (The Replication Crisis part 2)

February 08, 2022 by Aidan Dennehy

How negligent are scientists?

Why do people think blueberries can fix all their problems?

Can you trust any scientific study?

In this episode, the humans discuss the effects of negligence and hype on the replication crisis. The crisis is a methodological problem in the sciences in which the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to reproduce. The problem undermines significant findings in everything from psychology, to medical science, to chemistry.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

Replication crisis on wikipedia

Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth by Dr. Stuart Ritchie

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre

The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal

Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes

Growth in a Time of Debt by Reinhart and Rogoff (Negligent Economist Article)

Statcheck web app

The prevalence of statistical reporting errors in psychology (1985–2013) by Nuitjen et al.

The GRIM Test: A Simple Technique Detects Numerous Anomalies in the Reporting of Results in Psychology by Brown and Heathers

The ghosts of HeLa: How cell line misidentification contaminates the scientific literature by Horbach and Halffman

The poor availability of psychological research data for reanalysis by Wicherts et al.

Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions by Tenopir et al.

The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age by Vines et al.

The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study by Sumner et al.

Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children by Wakefield et al. (RETRACTED Paper that claimed to link Autism and MMR vaccine)

Lancet retracts 12-year-old article linking autism to MMR vaccines

Master resilience training in the U.S. Army. by Reivich and Seligman

A Critical Examination of the U.S. Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program by Brown

The problem of dropout from “gold standard” PTSD therapies by Najavits

Veterans’ Thoughts About PTSD Treatment and Subsequent Treatment Utilization by Johnson et al.

Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List by Mazieres and Kohler

BEALL'S LIST OF POTENTIAL PREDATORY JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS

SH59: Fraud and Bias in Science: Why Most Published Research Might Be Wrong

January 25, 2022 by Aidan Dennehy

Can you trust science?

In this episode, the humans discuss the replication crisis: a methodological crisis in the sciences in which the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to reproduce. The problem undermines significant findings in everything from psychology, to medical science, to chemistry.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

Replication crisis on wikipedia

Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth by Dr. Stuart Ritchie

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre

The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal

Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction - ‘Great’ TV show

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato (4 of Plato’s books, including Apology, the story where Socrates describes the oracle of Delphi saying no one is smarter than him)

Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect by Dr. Daryl J. Bem of Cornell University

Failing the Future: Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Replicate Bem’s ‘Retroactive Facilitation of Recall’ Effect by Stuart J. Ritchie et al.

1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility: Survey sheds light on the ‘crisis’ rocking research - Article in Nature

Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy - Open letter from psychologies urging governments not to consider psychological findings when making COVID-19 policy

Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science by the Open Science Collaboration

The Retraction Watch Leaderboard - List of the most fraudulent researchers in the world

Automaticity of Social Behavior: Direct Effects of Trait Construct and Stereotype Activation on Action by Bargh et al. - Priming people with old age to make them walk slower study

Behavioral Priming: It’s all in the Mind, but Whose Mind? by Doyen et al. - Replication of Old Age priming study

The Science of Well-Being by Dr. Laurie Santos

High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being by Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton

SH58: Finding Flow in your Time Off

January 11, 2022 by Aidan Dennehy

How much do you enjoy your leisure time?

Does your mind feel like a beehive of chaos at times?

Flow is "the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it."

In this episode, the humans discuss Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. They cover what Flow is, Psychic Energy and Entropy, how to enjoy your time off, and the stages of meaning in life.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

SH55: Ultralearning Irish Challenge — Can we speak it?

SH56: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Entropy: Embrace the Chaos! Crash Course Chemistry #20 - Good introduction to Entropy video

Limitless - movie about unlocking 100% of your mind

Flow Graph

Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott Young

SH53: Ultralearning: How to Learn Anything Deeply and Quickly

Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday

Death Note

The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

SH57: 2022 Yearly Themes

December 14, 2021 by Aidan Dennehy

A yearly theme is a high-level idea that guides you throughout a year or season. It's not a resolution. You don't set any specific metrics to achieve. A theme is not lose X pounds by the end of the year or read Y books this year. It's more of a high-level idea that guides your decisions throughout the year (e.g. Year of Health, Year of Order, Year of Novelty)

Last year the humans both set themes to follow (Aidan’s was Year of the Job and Evan’s was Year of Contribution) and now it's time to review how they went and set new themes for 2022!

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

The Theme System - website with the full theme system guide

‘Your Theme‘ - video by CGP Grey explaining yearly themes

Episode 35: 2021 Yearly Themes

Episode 12: The Experimental Dozen

Festivus

Seinfeld Episode with Festivus

Secure the Bag - Urban Dictionary Definition

SH56: What is Flow?

November 30, 2021 by Aidan Dennehy

What is the best experience you've ever had?

Do you more often feel apathetic or engaged throughout your day?

In this episode, the humans discuss Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. They cover what Flow is, how to structure your life and personality to get more Flow, and the Paradox of Work in our culture.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.