education 11
- Needing grades to make students pay attention is evidence that the class is boring, not that students do not care about learning.
- Teaching and grading are two different jobs, and doing both at once makes a person worse at teaching.
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peer review 7
- Sixty years of peer review produced no evidence that it made science better, and the literature it produced is in a bad state.
- Needing a reviewer's approval before an idea counts for anything makes scientists worse at thinking, and costs the field its most unusual ideas.
metascience 5
- Large replication projects answer the wrong question, because most individual studies do not matter either way.
- Sixty years of peer review produced no evidence that it made science better, and the literature it produced is in a bad state.
attitude change 4
- Misperceptions of attitude change may hinder efforts to understand social worlds, distort democracy, and turn imaginary trends into real ones.
- National discourse on contentious issues and resulting policies would be very different if people better understood how attitudes have and have not changed.
behavioural science 3
- Telling people that something is good or fun accomplishes nothing; the posters and campaigns that do it only vibrate the air.
- Stereotypes of the past lead people to misperceive attitude change, and those misperceptions can legitimize policies people may not actually prefer.