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A hyped effect shrinking to a small but real one as the studies improve is a sign that a field is working, not failing.

Drawn from what Stuart Ritchie said

Subjectmetascience
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metascience Research about research: whether published findings hold up, and what makes a field more or less reliable.

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  1. Stuart Ritchie Psychologist, formerly a lecturer at King's College London
    Initial massive exaggeration of the importance of an effect gives way to more realistic, much smaller effects (which might still be useful) after people start doing better studies.

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    ↗How growth mindset shranksciencefictions.org

    11 Oct 2022

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