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This paper refutes a 2008 paper that has already been refuted.

Could you cite?




I don't know, sorry. I'm just repeating what I heard from my wife. I will ask her.


I think this would be strong evidence for why this should be published, even if some no-name journal happened to publish a refutation at some unknown time in the past. I just searched for the paper 'Political Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits' on Google Scholar and found a large number of papers citing the paper in question, and searches on regular search engines turn up an even more vast number of mass media references to the paper. Yet I'm unable to find any reference to any replications of such including with keyword tuning.

Whatever replication come refutation there may have been seems to have eluded not only society, but also scientists at large. I do believe both her and Science that the study was refuted at some point, but if nobody knows this and people keep assuming the study is meaningful - then this refutation is completely meaningless. Science as a journal brings the eyeballs and thus has, in my opinion, an obligation to publish data indicating that extremely influential studies they have previously published are likely flawed.


Please do. This study of "46 adults with strong political beliefs" from 2008 has since been cited by 576 other publications, including books (according to Google Scholar).


I would be most curious for the cite myself!





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