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> When the authors protest that none of the errors really matter, it makes you realize that, in these projects, the data hardly matter at all.


I think my personal favorite is the Kahneman quote about how you have NO CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT.


I also find this quote remarkable, and not in a good way; but I recall that Kahneman's studies do replicate pretty well. (This is not to say that all their claimed implications are true - this is the part where "no choice but to accept" rubs me the wrong way.)


The full no choice but to accept quote was specifically about priming studies, IIRC, and I guess what irked Gelman (a statistician) the most was that Kahneman got statistics wrong by overestimating the strength of evidence.




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