Supports· moderateMPI-E017
Maier & Dechamps 2022: a celebrated micro-PK effect traced to a coding error
- what the source states
- In a preregistered replication program of a correlational micro-PK effect, the authors report discovering a coding error in their earlier work that had produced a false-positive result, and analyze what the corrected record implies about their previous conclusions.
- what we infer
- A documented instance, inside the modern correlational micro-PK literature, of an ordinary software mistake manufacturing an "anomalous" effect that survived until a replication forced the audit — exactly the class of mundane mechanism the conventional steelman says the founding matrix results need to be screened against. Credit where due: the authors found and published the error themselves.
- limitations
- Concerns the Maier/Dechamps experimental line, not Lucadou's matrix datasets; its force here is as a documented failure mode, not a direct audit.