Episode 38: Is There a Generalizability Crisis?

Two Psychologists Four Beers

Yoel and Mickey discuss a new paper by Tal Yarkoni suggesting that quantitative research in psychology is suffering from a generaliozability crisis. Do the numbers and statistics that psychological scientists present in their papers correspond to their verbal claims? What would psychological science look like if psychologists made fewer general statements? Should psychologists conduct more qualitative and descriptive research? Did Tal Yarkoni himself use a quantitative argument to prop up very old verbal claims about the problem of induction?

Bonus: Before discussing generalizability, Yoel and Mickey discuss Contrapoints and her new video on cancel-culture.

Links:

• DEVIL'S TRILL XII: CYPRESS TRILL — Blood Brothers
• Canceling | ContraPoints - YouTube
• Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood
• Cancel Culture Is Not Real—At Least Not in the Way You Think | Time
• Allo Darlin - Tallulah - YouTube
• PsyArXiv Preprints | The Generalizability Crisis
• The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology: The Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method: Augustine Brannigan: 0000202307433: Books - Amazon.ca
• PsyArXiv Preprints | Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm