Krystal is shocked that a behavioral researcher was caught faking data in a study on honesty. Krystal thinks that the government agencies who use such research will be misled.
Nope. Government agencies conduct their own research, which is always VASTLY more thorough and accurate than the research allowed in academia. I saw a shadow of this when I was doing research on speech intonation, which is related to both surveillance and persuasion. NSA research was clearly WAY ahead of what we were doing. They could see our research, BECAUSE THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THE WEB, but we couldn’t see theirs.
Replication checkers ALWAYS deal with the public and UNUSED academic side. The checkers NEVER tell us about the internal research that’s actually used by government.
Secrecy is the default, not just in Deepstate but in every organized endeavor.
Contra: Behavioral research, secret or not, isn’t needed. The basic rules have been known and published for thousands of years. Currently visible errors by Bud or CNN or Starbucks are not mysterious. They’re breaking ancient and obvious rules.
Persuasion can’t be improved by research. Effective preaching or teaching or salesmanship depends on the talent and personality of the persuader.
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