Simulations as Rhetorical Devices (opens in new tab)

The past decade has not been kind to experimental social psychology. Study after study failed to replicate and entire literatures have turned out to be built on nothing (a.k.a. statistical noise mining). "Another day, another idol falls. This one has been teetering for years, so the collapse didn’t come as a shock. But that doesn’t McShane, Böckenholt and Hansen: Adjusting for Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: An Evaluation of Selection Methods and Some Cautionary Notes