Defender on Defender’s Corner

In a cosmic coincidence, right after publishing this I heard Steve Levitt talk on his latest podcast episode about "his model of how the work works" and how he tries to predict research results before he reads them! > I’ve got a model in my head of how the world works — a broad framework for making sense of the world around me. [...] I have a habit of asking myself, “Given my model of the world, what results would I expect the study to generate?” Usually I’m pretty good at guessing what the researchers actually find. But with Ellen Langer, over and over and over, she gets results that I would never predict https://freakonomics.com/podcast/pay-attention-your-body-will-thank-you/ (so, that's an example of the validation I keep finding: when I independently find something that someone else says is also useful for them, that's a good signal)