This is why psychology can’t have nice things: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu, Cooley & Posavak (2023)

American society deserves a much better return on its multi-billion dollar investment in psychological science than a grievance-based, blame shifting thesis that attempts to explain away its failures and justify more of the same. In their recent attempt to defense this thesis, Sanbonmatsu, Cooley & Posavac (2023) rely on fallacious arguments and counterfactual claims that collapse under the weight of their contractions and reveal a sobering portrait of precisely the problems of psychological science that the authors unsuccessfully attempt to explain away.