Sapolsky — “I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of…”

Source: Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will — Robert M. Sapolsky

Book page: sapolsky-determined-part-1

From: Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will — Quotes

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I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis” in psychology, where an alarming percentage of published findings, even some in textbooks, turn out to be hard or impossible for other scientists to independently replicate (including some findings, I admit ruefully, that wound up being cited in my 2017 book, where I should have been more discerning). Thus, this section considers only findings whose broad conclusions have been independently replicated.