That paper is actually worth the read (and if you don't want/have time to read the whole thing, ChatGPT does a great job of summarizing it IMO). Langer's research appears to generally be in the "mind over matter" genre, and this genre seems to be especially rife with the misuse of statistics. It actually seems very similar to me to what happened with Amy Cuddy's "power posing" research (made famous by this TED talk, https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_s...), which was eventually pretty thoroughly disproven and even repudiated by some of the original coauthors of Cuddy's papers.
The other question I have is that the paper you linked gives makes some very clear, "no gray area" arguments about why some T-values that Langer calculated for one of her papers is just flat out wrong. He's saying "I'm a statistician, and you did the statistics wrong." I'm very curious if Langer ever responded to this, because the argument seems pretty black-and-white.
The other question I have is that the paper you linked gives makes some very clear, "no gray area" arguments about why some T-values that Langer calculated for one of her papers is just flat out wrong. He's saying "I'm a statistician, and you did the statistics wrong." I'm very curious if Langer ever responded to this, because the argument seems pretty black-and-white.