Stuart Ritchie

Hypeology will expose the bias, hype, incompetence and fraud that plague the peer-reviewed world where many of the most seductive and striking scientific studies originate, and will take a Freakonomics-style look at the implications of this crisis for us all.A whole industry of books and TED-talks has been built on the findings of psychological studies, presenting them as a toolkit we can apply to our lives. That industry proved resilient in the face of the ‘Replication Crisis’ of 2011 that revealed hundreds of famous experiments to be unrepeatable, dramatically undermining their conclusions. But as Dr Stuart Ritchie will explain, far from being solved that crisis has since spread to other disciplines.In one large-scale organised replication effort in 2015, in which psychologists repeated 100 experiments from top academic journals, only 39 of those papers’ results were successfully replicated. Another recent analysis found that almost half of 30,000 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals contained numerical errors; 15% of them contained errors so severe that they entirely flipped the results described in the paper. A 2016 survey of scientists across all fields found that 52% believed science is facing a “significant crisis”.Hypeology will explain how bad practice and dodgy results have become endemic in contemporary science, and it will provide a devastating and gripping take-down of the over-simplified way many of us – including scientists – present and interpret even those results that are reliable. It will be a celebration of everything that is great about science, a manifesto for a better and more rigorous way of thinking about scientific data and its importance for society, and it will provide the reader with a toolkit for spotting bad science for themselves in order to save science from itself.

There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests don't measure anything "real", and only reflect how good you are at doing IQ tests; that they ignore important traits like "emotional intelligence" and "multiple intelligences"; and that those who are interested in IQ testing must be elitists, or maybe something more sinister.Yet the scientific evidence is clear: IQ tests are extraordinarily useful. IQ scores are related to a huge variety of important life outcomes like educational success, income, and even life expectancy, and biological studies have shown they are genetically influenced and linked to measures of the brain. Studies of intelligence and IQ are regularly published in the world's top scientific journals.This book will offer an entertaining introduction to the state of the art in intelligence and IQ, and will show how we have arrived at what we know from a century's research. It will engage head-on with many of the criticisms of IQ testing by describing the latest high-quality scientific research, but will not be a simple point-by-point rebuttal: it will make a positive case for IQ research, focusing on the potential benefits for society that a better understanding of intelligence can bring.

Światowy bestseller Stuarta Ritchiego! Książka, która ujawnia niepokojące i szokujące sygnały świadczące o kryzysie, jaki przechodzi współczesna nauka. Nauka to sposób, w jaki rozumiemy świat. Jednak niewłaściwa interpretacja i koloryzowane statystyki sprawiły, że ogromna liczba badań naukowych stała się bezużyteczna lub, co gorsza, wprowadzająca w błąd. Obecny system finansowania badań oraz publikacji ich wyników nie tylko nie chroni nas przed pomyłkami i słabościami naukowców, ale wręcz aktywnie zachęca badaczy do ingerowania w otrzymywane rezultaty, co może mieć katastrofalne konsekwencje. Stuart Ritchie, psycholog i popularyzator nauki, demaskuje przekłamania, manipulacje oraz szkodliwe nawyki naukowców, podając w wątpliwość prawdziwość i obiektywizm wielu badań naukowych. Na stronach swojej książki obnaża prawdziwe oblicze współczesnej nauki – okazuje się bowiem, że wiele powszechnie akceptowanych i bardzo wpływowych teorii bazuje na nierzetelnych badaniach. Autor ujawnia zaniedbania i oszustwa, które podważają wysiłki od skażenia laboratoriów po tajenie nieudanych badań; od fałszowania danych po coraz częstszą pokusę wyolbrzymiania przeciętnych wyników w celu zdobycia sławy naukowej. Na potwierdzenie swoich tez Ritchie przytacza konkretne przykłady. Choć książka bije na alarm, jej wydźwięk jest pozytywny – autor nie tylko daje nam wiedzę potrzebną do wykrywania wątpliwych badań, lecz także wskazuje drogę do reform, które mogłyby ponownie uczynić naukę godną zaufania. Tytuł Science How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth Tł Fabian Tryl

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