The media is biased. Not in the way that people think it is, but it’s certainly biased towards tension, it’s biased towards surprise. And so, there might be some kind of bias that leads us all towards a result that is counterintuitive and exciting.
Radiolab host Jad Abumrad, who dropped by On The Media to talk about the Decline effect, which is when results from scientific experiments become less and less replicable over time. (via onthemedia)

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