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Has there been any attempt at quantifying the "wishful thinking bias" in social science?

Here's something you might find interesting: http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/698.htm...

There have are also loads of replication projects, some currently ongoing, of both experimental and statistical papers, with generally dismal results.

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