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I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn why squinting helps you see.

But first, you'll learn about a problem that a lot of researchers are dealing with these days,

with some help from academic and author Joseph Regal.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Social and life sciences are facing a crisis. It goes by a few names, the replicability crisis or the

replication crisis or the reproducibility crisis. Whatever you call it, it's something

you're going to learn about in a minute with today's guest

Joseph Regal.

He's an associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and the author of the

new book, Hacking Life, Systematized Living, and its Discontents. Here's our exchange about hacking life

contents.

Here's our exchange about the replicability crisis

and how scientists are addressing it.

So Professor Riegel, would you mind giving a quick overview of that issue

in how it's affecting life hackers particularly?

Oh, it's not easy to give a quick overview, I'm afraid.

But the general issue is that people have found out through some experimentation of late that a lot of the classic studies that you find in health and psychological sciences in particular don't replicate.

That means if I go back and I do the same exact study I don't get the same results in fact I usually find something much more disappointing than the original exciting

Advice that told us we need to take an expansive posture if we want to get the job.

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