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Causal complexity demands community coordination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2022

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Evan DeFilippis
Beau Sievers
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Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. beau@beausievers.com; defilippis@g.harvard.edu
Evan DeFilippis
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Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. beau@beausievers.com; defilippis@g.harvard.edu
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Abstract

Yarkoni's argument risks skepticism about the very possibility of social science: If social phenomena are too causally complex, normal scientific methods could not possibly untangle them. We argue that the problem of causal complexity is best approached at the level of scientific communities and institutions, not the modeling practices of individual scientists.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e31
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