Pottery-class parable exposed as fabrication reignites critique of Eliezer's pre-replication-crisis storytelling
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-06
A quoted post reveals that the famous anecdote about pottery students becoming masters by making a million crappy pieces is fabricated. QiaochuYuan argues this highlights the worst-aged part of the Sequences: Eliezer's pre-replication-crisis habit of treating small Kahneman & Tversky studies (n=20) as revealing Deep Truths about Human Nature — a hunger for science parables that are actually true, which often weren't.
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