The thesis remains untested despite available experimental designs
Evidence
The entire enterprise has degenerated into mere academicism: the solemn repetition of the indubitable. Our commitments are no longer advancing but impeding inquiry, reproducing results of such studied vagueness and predictability that we threaten to bore one another to death. The surest sign of this state of affairs is the long-term retreat into method at the expense of substance, as if doing it right guarantees getting it right. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 402 (
#responds-to, via linked claim)
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- XREF: connects to: Effects research has stalled into staid reproduction of predictable results — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 402; Experimental and longitudinal designs are rare in quantitative radicalization research. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 48; Demonstration techniques remain largely undeveloped despite low-cost possibilities — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 461
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- Effects research has stalled into staid reproduction of predictable results
#responds-to(0.80) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 402