I hate to find myself in the position of playing apologist for this mentality, but I believe the party line is that most of the relevant biases are instilled by mass culture and present at some level even in most people trying to combat them, never mind scientists who oppose them in a kind of vague way but mostly have better things to do with their lives.
In light of the Implicit Association Test this doesn’t even seem all that far-fetched to me. The question is to what extent it warrants being paranoid about experimental design, and that’s where I find myself begging to differ.
I hate to find myself in the position of playing apologist for this mentality, but I believe the party line is that most of the relevant biases are instilled by mass culture and present at some level even in most people trying to combat them, never mind scientists who oppose them in a kind of vague way but mostly have better things to do with their lives.
In light of the Implicit Association Test this doesn’t even seem all that far-fetched to me. The question is to what extent it warrants being paranoid about experimental design, and that’s where I find myself begging to differ.