The strongest brain in entertainment

Chapter 370 A Prolific Scholar

(PS: In the plot of Chapter 326 "English Test Paper" earlier, there was a problem with the data involved, and it was revised in this chapter. The previous revisions cannot be made. It seems that the author of the chapter 10 days ago has to apply for a responsible editor to help revise.

However, a few data do not affect reading at all, and even most readers have forgotten it. Here, I would like to remind readers with excellent memory. )
"Psychology: Subversion", this is Li Fan's final exam paper. It was officially published in the semi-monthly "Acta Psychologica" a month ago. One month later, it was finally dug out by the news media. up.

In "Psychology: Subversive Theory", Li Fan used seven methods (P value in hypothesis testing, confidence interval of effect size, comprehensive analysis of two studies...) 36 academic papers in journal journals were successfully repeatedly evaluated.

In the end, Li Fan found that only 36 of these 11 articles could be repeated, and thus came to an astonishing conclusion: the so-called psychology is not reliable at all!
In fact, to put it bluntly, among the 36 academic achievements, after Li Fan’s second derivation and verification, only 11 obtained the same conclusions, and the other 25 were all wrong!
This conclusion is too scary. If we magnify this conclusion, are most of the conclusions in the field of psychology wrong?

This is undoubtedly a bomb dropped on the academic world!
Li Fan's "Psychology: Subversive Theory" was born out of the famous subversive academic research "Estimating-the-reproducibility-of-psychological-science" and "Reproducibility-Project: Psychology" in his previous life.

Li Fan synthesized these two studies, and conducted simple experiments and reasoning on certain items in international psychological journals on weekdays, and completed this "Psychology: Subversive Theory".

Once "Psychology: Subversion" was thrown on the Internet, it was like a spark that quickly started a prairie fire!
As if overnight, the entire Internet was completely blown up. After the New Year, the first controversial incident was born.

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

"Li Fan, although you are very good at Chinese studies, and you have published books and lectures, you are no one in Chinese studies, but don't meddle in psychology!"

"There is a specialization in the art industry, do you know that?"

"If more than half of the psychological conclusions are wrong, then what are the psychologists all over the world doing?!"

"Li Fan, you are definitely drifting away! Go back and 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 his talents in psychology. Moreover, this academic work is just like its name, which is too subversive and negative!
Directly turned the entire psychology into a "pseudoscience", saying that more than half of these 36 studies are untenable. No one can believe this statement that shocked everyone's jaws!

What's more, the presenter is an expert on Chinese studies and has nothing to do with psychology, even if this person is the famous Li Fan!

Facing the one-sided public opinion, Li Fan closed his phone and said calmly: "Let me have a look at the elective course arrangement for this semester."

The roommates were shocked:
"Huh? They are questioning you!"

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

"Netizens say that your work is completely nonsense, you are so calm, did you become a fairy this winter vacation?"

……

There are two reasons for Li Fan's calmness: First, he had already expected the one-sided doubts generated by this research. After all, the two research reports also encountered the same situation in his previous life.

Second, what is there to argue with the netizens, everyone's academic level and educational background are not equal!It's like elementary school students say that 1+1 equals 2, and high-achieving math students say that it is not equal to 2. How do you communicate?

Netizens can't understand what he explained, and Li Fan will foolishly try to change the minds of netizens?

Academic exchanges can only be carried out when the level of the two parties is equal or close, otherwise it is empty talk.

Li Fan didn't bother to respond. After receiving the schedule of elective courses for this semester from his roommate, he turned on the computer and began to select courses online.

……

Regarding the discussion of Li Fan's work, because of Li Fan's special status, the discussion on the entire Internet has intensified!

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

Li Gang, professor of psychology at Beijing Normal University, published a long microblog for systematic analysis:

"Li Fan's research has many problems, the sampling is biased, and a lot of reasoning and speculation are carried out, which is extremely imprecise!
Error, Power and Bias all have serious problems...

In my opinion, this is a naive primary research report. "

The impreciseness of the research report pointed out by Professor Li Gang, Li Fan also admitted, because Li Fan did not have the necessary experimental conditions and scientific team support.Relying on his elder brother alone, he can't conduct thorough and large-scale research on every research result.

Therefore, in the verification of other academic achievements, Li Fan's sample size is very small, and they are all taken from his classmates.

Li Fan had to make reasonable guesses about the correctness and inaccuracy of some academic achievements and draw personal conclusions.

This "reasonable guess" is not recognized by anyone. In the eyes of most experts, what is a "reasonable guess"?That is just the imagination of Li Fan, a layman in psychology.

The biggest weakness of Li Fan's academic research is: limited by his personal identity, he cannot have complete experimental conditions, cannot do a detailed and rigorous verification process, and made many speculations in the report, making the research report convincing not tall.

There is really no way, Li Fan is not a big professor after all, and he doesn't have his own scientific team.You can't investigate thousands of people in order to verify the correctness of a conclusion. He doesn't have this condition.

After Professor Li Gang posted Weibo, Ouyang Zhennan, a psychology lecturer at Zhejiang University, followed up again, continued to analyze Li Fan’s article, and came to a conclusion:
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 psychological experts publicly "reversed 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 who spoke anonymously said the study was worthless.

……

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

Li Fan was lying on the bed staring blankly at the phone. He felt bad all over, and his former broad-mindedness had also shrunk. At this time, he was no longer extraordinary.

When the entire public opinion, from ordinary people to relevant experts, opposed his views, and the situation intensified, Li Fan could no longer be as calm as before.

Li Fan admits that his research report lacks the support of a large amount of accurate data, and also admits that the experts have questioned some places, but he is not happy!
So, he decided to do something!

In such a situation, some people will jump up and argue with others and even call their father and mother!Some people are aggrieved but silent... because of personality, everyone's way of dealing with problems may not be the same.

And Li Fan's approach is: keep silent, and publish academic works on psychology like crazy!
Get up in a "hustle", without washing your face or brushing your teeth, get out of bed and come to the computer desk, open the notebook and prepare to type, what can you write?

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

"Music and Creativity"

Creativity is divided into divergent creativity and convergent creativity. A true creative genius must be both a divergent and aggregator.

……

Upbeat music can enhance creativity, it has both positive emotion-inducing and stimulating arousal components, and these are helpful for the flexibility of thinking, thereby further enhancing creativity.

(Finish)

When the last word was written, Ma Qiang's guitar was also finished.

Li Fan hung up the phone to Lu Yaya and asked if the research on psychology could be published in the "National Learning Times" as an exception, because the paper newspaper "Acta Psychologica" is too slow to update and its influence is too narrow.

Lu Yaya just came back from an internship in the United States. After receiving the call, she asked the editor-in-chief for instructions. 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 on "The Times of Chinese Studies" for more than two months. No matter what you write, we will open a special section for you! We have waited so hard for you, Writer Li! "

On the "Guoxue 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 he woke up in the morning and saw his article, Li Fan was unsure what to write in his second research article.

The TV in the dormitory was playing "Animal World", and a magnetic voice came from it:

"Spring is here, everything is revived, this is the mating season..."

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

"On bonobo bisexuality."

However, Li Fan deleted it silently, thinking: I think I am also a public figure...

Change title: "The Birdcage Effect".

What is the birdcage effect?That is: people will continue to add more related things that they don't need on the basis of accidentally obtaining an item that they don't need.

"Bird cage effect" is one of the top ten psychological phenomena that human beings cannot get rid of. It was discovered by James, an outstanding modern psychologist, in a previous life.

The reason why it is called the birdcage effect is as follows:
In 1907, James made a bet with his friend physicist Carlson that he would let Carlson raise a bird.

Carlson naturally didn't believe it, and then James gave him an exquisite birdcage. Carlson didn't care, he just thought it was a beautiful handicraft.

But as a result, after a while, there was a beautiful parrot in the cage.

The day after the "Birdcage Effect" was published, Li Fan published another article: "New Hypothesis of Memory Inheritance".

The idea that memory can be passed on to the next generation has already been proven to be a false statement. However, in this article "New Hypothesis of Memory Inheritance", Li Fan reaffirmed this point of view, and speculated that memory is related to psychology and genetics. connections between studies.

On Thursday, "Depression and Physical Health" was published, proposing that depression is not only a psychological disorder, but also a systemic disease!It affects the entire body, especially the body's ability to detoxify.This is why people with depression are at higher risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, etc.

On Friday, "On Bonobo Bisexuality" was published... Well, it was published anyway.

From Monday to Friday, for a total of five days, Li Fan published a research result or prediction in psychology every day.

Netizens understand that this Li Fan is Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death. The more people question his level, the more he keeps publishing his works.

However, Shuai Li, how can you say that the opinions and conclusions expressed in your published articles are correct?Moreover, some of them are just guesswork.

The doubts of some experts gradually disappeared because Li Fan published his works too frequently and they could not cope with it. After all, reasonable criticism is also based on in-depth research.

However, the voices of doubt from netizens are still continuing. Netizens do not need to conduct in-depth analysis and research. For some of them, it is wrong to think differently from their own ideas.

They also gave Li Fan a new nickname: Dreamer.

Li Fan once thought that he would not be able to take off his title of "idealist" for a while, until next Wednesday, when Li Fan published 10 psychology articles in a row, his turning point appeared.

……

On Wednesday night, Chris-Bosh, a famous professor of psychology at Princeton University, returned to Peking University, preparing to continue his three-year teaching mission at Peking University.

When he returned to the office, Professor Cheng put the test papers of the last semester exam on his desk, and said in broken German: "Guten-Abend, professor!" (Professor, good evening.)
Chris-Bosh was surprised: "Gute-Nacht, professor-Cheng, Ihr-Deutsch-wunderbar." (Good evening, Professor Cheng, your German is so good!)

Professor Cheng was confused and said in English: "Let's-communicate-in-English!" (Let's communicate in English.)
Flipping through the stack of final exam papers, Professor Bosh was at a loss and couldn't understand Chinese at all. Until he accidentally turned to the English test paper, his dark blue eyes burst out with excitement:

"Oh-my-God! Written-in-English?" (My God, written in English?)
Professor Cheng said it was written by Li Fan, the prettiest male student in the class.

Professor Posh nodded, saying then he would know who wrote it.

Turning through the entire test paper, from the first glance at the beginning, his dark blue eyes became wider and brighter.

After reading the entire test paper, Professor Bosh took out his mobile phone and dialed the number, but it didn't work, and then he cursed: "Fuck!"

Just when Professor Cheng was stunned, Professor Bosh's phone went straight to an office at Princeton University, "Hey, buddy, I-have-an-interesting-project-from-a-student-in-China, do-you-have- any-interest-in-doing-it?" (Hey buddy, I have a Chinese student who proposed an interesting project, are you interested in doing it?)
Professor Cheng on the side was stunned for a moment. His eyes fell on the bright red 96 points on the test paper, and he felt a little uneasy.

[The update may be unstable in the next two or three days.

It seems that I have suddenly entered a period of fatigue, my head is not turning, I have no inspiration, I have no energy to write, and every sentence I write may get stuck.I will adjust it as soon as possible, and try to adjust the status within two or three days, improve the quality, and stabilize the update. 】

(End of this chapter)