Cross-Check, Scientific American blogs ( 1 February 2016). Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Fears Theorists, Lacking Data, May Succumb to "Wishful Thinking" (interview of Hossenfelder by John Horgan).As long as you have data for guidance, you’ll be swiftly corrected. It’s just not something that they pay attention to because it’s never been necessary before. And no physicist I know makes any effort to consciously address cognitive biases, such as wishful thinking, loss aversion, or the use of aesthetic criteria. You just can’t be sure how much sociology affects judgment. And the environment in academia presently is absolutely unsuitable for this. If you want to rely on non-empirical assessment, you have to make really sure that scientists’ judgment is as objective as humanly possible.This article about a physicist is a stub. Sabine Hossenfelder (born September 18, 1976) is a German theoretical physicist, blogger, and author of the 2018 book Lost in Math.
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