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You may remember Adam Mastroianni from such threads as this (about why peer review is crap) or this (about how people believe things could be better). But he recently posted an appeal to join his secret science society (that's not really secret): It's a great follow-up piece to the peer review...

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review The rise and fall of peer review Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing Adam Mastroianni Dec 13 “For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on...

Things Could Be Better Adam Mastroianni, Ethan Ludwin-Peery Eight studies document what may be a fundamental and universal bias in human imagination: people think things could be better. When we ask people how things could be different, they imagine how things could be better (Study 1). The...