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Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com · 06/08/2026

More of this -- only if we cultivate norms that regard failures as valuable will make progress. This is how knowledge accumulates. As an aside: we also need fewer survey experiments. At the moment, we have a misallocation of effort/resources. See also these slides by Macartan Humphreys.

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Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com · 06/08/2026

The other problem -- flagged, inter alia, by Thomas Brailey -- is that the data we gather for survey experiments are usually not used in any follow-up studies and thus non-cumulative. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abs…

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Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com · 06/08/2026

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On limitations to survey experiment research and attacks on academia

In the past I had shared some reflections or concerns on some challenges that I see arise with survey experiments and potentially with the information experiment variety of this class of research…

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