(PS: In the previous chapter 326 "English Test Paper", there is a problem with the data involved, and the modifications were made in this chapter. The previous ones could not be modified. It seems that the author of the chapter 10 days ago had to apply to the editor to help modify it.

But a few data does not affect reading at all, and most readers even forgot it. Here I would like to remind readers who have outstanding memory.)

"Psychology: Subversion" is a final exam paper by Li Fan. It was officially published in the extremely niche bimonthly issue of "Journal of Psychology" a month ago. Today, a month later, it was finally dug out by the news media.

In "Psychology: The Theory of Subversion", Li Fan used seven methods (assuming the P value in the detection, the confidence interval of the effect size, and a comprehensive analysis of two studies...) to successfully evaluate 36 academic achievements published in the world's top psychology journals in the past year.

In the end, Li Fan discovered that only 11 of these 36 articles can be repeated, and came to an astonishing conclusion: the so-called psychology is simply unreliable!

To put it bluntly, after Li Fan's re-verification, among the 36 academic achievements, after Li Fan's second derivation and verification, only 11 of the conclusions obtained remain unchanged, and the other 25 are all wrong!

This conclusion is too scary. To amplify this conclusion, are most conclusions in the psychology community wrong?

This is undoubtedly a bomb dropped into the academic community!

Li Fan's article "Psychology: Subversion" was derived from the famous subversive academic research in his previous life, "Estimating-the-reproducibility-of-psychological-science" and "Reproducibility-Project:Psychology".

Li Fan combined these two researches and conducted simple experiments and reasoning on some projects in international psychology journals on weekdays, completing this article "Psychology: A Discussion on Subversion".

Once "Psychology: The Theory of Subversion" was thrown online, it was like a spark, quickly setting off a prairie!

It seemed as if the entire network was completely in full swing overnight, and after the New Year, the first controversial incident was born.

"Although I can't understand Li Fan's research, I know the conclusion. Isn't this saying that psychology is pseudoscience!"

"Li Fan, although you are very awesome in Chinese studies, you have published books and you have no one in Chinese studies, but don't get involved in psychology!"

"You have a specialty in your profession, do you know?"

"If most of the psychological conclusions are wrong, then what do psychologists all over the world eat?!"

"Li Fan, you are definitely a wanderer! Let's go back to study Chinese studies. You are a pure layman in psychology!"

...

Regarding this academic work, there are basically not many netizens who support Li Fan. After all, Li Fan has never shown any excellence in psychology. Moreover, this academic work is as subversive and negative as its name!

He directly turned the entire psychology into "pseudoscience", saying that most of these 36 studies were untenable, and no one could believe this statement that shocked everyone's chins!

Besides, the publisher is an expert in Chinese studies and has nothing to do with psychology, even if this person is the famous Li Fan!

Faced with one-sided public opinion, Li Fan closed his phone and said calmly: "I'll have a look at the elective courses this semester."

The roommates were shocked:

"Ah? They are questioning you!"

"Li Fan, don't you want to say anything?"

"Netizens say that your work is completely nonsense. You are so calm. Did you practice immortality this winter vacation?"

...

There are two reasons why Li Fan is calm: First, he had already expected the one-sided doubts arising from this research, after all, those two research reports also encountered the same situation in their previous lives.

2. What are you going to argue with netizens? Everyone has no equal academic level and educational background! Just like primary school students say 11 is equal to 2, and top mathematics students say that it is not equal to 2. How do you communicate?

Netizens can't understand what they explained, and Li Fan will foolishly try to change the netizens' thoughts?

Academic exchanges must be carried out when the two sides are equal or close, otherwise they will be empty talk.

Li Fan was too lazy to respond, so after taking the semester's elective course schedule from his roommate, he turned on the computer and started to choose courses online.

...

The discussion on Li Fan’s work is getting more and more intense because of Li Fan’s special identity!

Soon, some researchers in the field of psychology also expressed their opinions, without exception, basically all of them were negative.

Li Gang, professor of psychology at Jingshi University, posted a long Weibo account for systematic analysis:

"Li Fan's research has many problems, sampling is tendency, and has conducted a lot of reasoning and speculation, which is extremely unrigorous!

Error, Power and Bias have serious problems...

I think this is a naive and elementary research report.”

Professor Li Gang pointed out that the imperfectness of the research report pointed out by Li Fan also admitted that because Li Fan does not have the necessary experimental conditions and scientific team support. He can't do a thorough and large-scale research on every research result by relying on his brother.

Therefore, in terms of verification of other academic achievements, Li Fan's sample size is very small, and it is all taken from the classmates around him.

Even Li Fan had to make reasonable inferences about some academic achievements and draw personal conclusions.

No one recognizes this "reasonable speculation". In the eyes of most experts, what is "reasonable speculation"? That is just the imagination of Li Fan, a psychology layman.

The biggest weakness of Li Fan's academic research is that due to his personal identity, he cannot have complete experimental conditions, cannot achieve detailed and strict verification processes, and speculates it many times in the report, making the research report less convincing.

There is really nothing to do about this. After all, Li Fan is not a university professor and does not have his own scientific team. He can't investigate thousands of people in order to verify the right and wrong of a conclusion. He doesn't meet this condition.

After Professor Li Gang posted on Weibo, Ouyang Zhennan, a lecturer in psychology at Zhejiang University, followed up again, continued to analyze Li Fan's article, and concluded:

1. Li Fan underestimated the actual failure rate because in addition to sampling error, there are other errors.

2. The repeated experiment should be as close as possible to the original experiment, but Li Fan did not do it.

...

After two consecutive psychology experts publicly "falling Li", more relevant experts joined the discussion.

Professor Zheng Yun said that this academic research is extremely immature;

In an interview, psychologist Ma Hai said that Li Fan's verification process was not rigorous.

A doctoral student anonymously said the research report was worthless.

...

Li Fan was pushed to the forefront until he got up the next morning and saw many experts jumping out, he couldn't sit still!

Li Fan lay on the bed and stared at his phone blankly. He was completely dissatisfied. His previous broad mind was also shrinking. At this time, he was extraordinary and unreliable.

When the entire social public opinion, from ordinary people to relevant experts, opposing his own views together, and the form became more and more intense, Li Fan could no longer remain calm like before.

Li Fan admitted that this research report does lack the support of a large amount of accurate data, and also admitted that experts question some places, but he is just unhappy!

So, he decided to do something!

When encountering this situation, some people will jump up and argue with others about right and wrong or even call their parents! Some people are angry but silent... Due to their personality reasons, everyone may not be able to deal with problems differently.

Li Fan’s approach is: keep silent and publish psychological academic works frantically!

Get up with a "blind" look, your face was not washed or brushed. You got out of bed and came to the computer desk. After opening your laptop, you prepared to write. What can you write?

Like every day last semester, Ma Qiang would play the guitar for a while after getting up. When the guitar sounded again this morning, Li Fan's fingers also started to typing on the keyboard:

Music and Creativity

Creativity is divided into divergent creativity and aggregated creativity. A true creative genius must be both divergent and aggregated.

...

Cheerful music can enhance creativity. It also has two qualities: positive emotions inducing power and strong arousal awakening components, which are of great help to the flexibility of thinking and further improve creativity.

(over)

When the last word was dropped, Ma Qiang finished playing the guitar.

Li Fan hung up a phone call to Lu Yaya and asked if the psychology research could be published in "The Times of Chinese Studies" because the paper newspaper "Journal of Psychology" was updated too slowly and its influence was too narrow.

Lu Yaya just returned from an internship in the United States. After receiving the call, she asked the editor-in-chief. Of course, the editor-in-chief's answer was no problem!

She said: "The editor-in-chief said that you haven't published an article in "Chinese Studies Times" for more than two months. No matter what you write, we will open a special section for you! We have been waiting for you so hard, Master Li!"

On the "Chinese Studies Times" APP, [Li Fan's Column] was officially launched the next day, and the article "Music and Creativity" was officially released as the first article!

When Li Fan got up in the morning and saw his article, he was undecided. What should he write about his next second study?

The TV in the dormitory is playing "Animal World", and a magnetic sound comes from it:

"Spring is here, everything is reviving, this is a mating season..."

Li Fan was inspired, and he got out of bed immediately and typed the following title on the computer:

"On the Problem of Biological Love in Bonobos".

However, Li Fan silently deleted it and thought to himself: I think I am also a public figure...

Change title: "Bird Cage Effect".

What is the birdcage effect? ​​It is: people will continue to add more things related to it but they don’t need on the basis of accidentally obtaining an item that they originally did not need.

The "bird cage effect" is one of the top ten psychology that humans cannot get rid of. In their previous lives, it was discovered by James, an outstanding modern psychologist.

The reason why it is called the birdcage effect is this:

In 1907, James bet with his friend physicist Carlson that he would definitely ask Carlson to keep a bird.

Carlson naturally didn't believe it, and then James gave him an exquisite bird cage. Carlson didn't care, just thought it was a beautiful craft.

But as a result, after a while, a beautiful parrot appeared in the bird cage.

The day after the publication of this article "Bird Cage Effect", Li Fan published another article: "The New Hypothesis of Memory Genetics".

The idea that memory can inherit the next generation has been proven to be a false statement. However, in this article "The New Hypothesis of Memory Genetics", Li Fan reaffirmed this view and speculated the connection between memory and psychology and genetics.
To be continued...