The ivory tower era of science is over | STAT

“Science itself is inherently resilient — that is, after all, why it’s science,” writes Jonathan Jackson.

A few years ago, my lab published a study comparing memory complaints across racial groups. We matched participants on age, IQ, socioeconomic status, depression, genetics — everything we’d been trained to match on. We ran them through the most sophisticated statistical machinery I knew. And we got a finding that felt righteous: proof that the assessments were biased. I was proud of it. My name was first author. It took me two more years to realize what we’d actually done. We’d stripped our participants of every variable that made them human beings in order to make them statistically…

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