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Author: Berkeley Dietvorst, Rob Mislavsky, and Uri Simonsohn

[79] Experimentation Aversion: Reconciling the Evidence

Posted on November 7, 2019February 11, 2020 by Berkeley Dietvorst, Rob Mislavsky, and Uri Simonsohn

A PNAS paper (.htm) proposed that people object “to experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies” (their title). In our own work (.htm), we arrive at the opposite conclusion: people “don’t dislike a corporate experiment more than they dislike its worst condition” (our title). In a forthcoming PNAS letter, we identified a problem with the statistical…

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