Not sure exactly what you mean about growth mindset, but I would remind you that even in SSC’s original article where he made a comment about it maybe-possibly being up next for the replication-crisis chopping-block, Scott Alexander pointed out how well-supported the theory seemed in experimental results so far. The proofoflogic post on growth mindset reviews some of this, including the causal model of how growth mindset works, which Carol Dweck validated piece-by-piece and which is a priori extremely plausible based on other known psychological phenomena including self-handicapping and learned helplessness.
They find either no effects or the effects are rather weak.
If you add to it that the growth mindset fits very well with social expectations and political correctness some dose of skepticism seems to be natural.
Not sure exactly what you mean about growth mindset, but I would remind you that even in SSC’s original article where he made a comment about it maybe-possibly being up next for the replication-crisis chopping-block, Scott Alexander pointed out how well-supported the theory seemed in experimental results so far. The proofoflogic post on growth mindset reviews some of this, including the causal model of how growth mindset works, which Carol Dweck validated piece-by-piece and which is a priori extremely plausible based on other known psychological phenomena including self-handicapping and learned helplessness.
Actually, my comment was not about the growth mindset, but if you want to know the reason why I think it is at least over-hyped… In short, the researches are not consistent and most of the confirming ones were conducted by Dweck’s team. See for example big study from 2019
https://www.niesr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/publications/Changing%20Mindsets_0.pdf
or metanalysis
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323565554_To_What_Extent_and_Under_Which_Circumstances_Are_Growth_Mind-Sets_Important_to_Academic_Achievement_Two_Meta-Analyses
They find either no effects or the effects are rather weak.
If you add to it that the growth mindset fits very well with social expectations and political correctness some dose of skepticism seems to be natural.
Yeah, sorry for focusing on that rather than the thrust of your comment.