Results like this make me wonder what news from sociology or psychology can really be trusted. It seems that every finding I've heard about that has entered the mainstream (stanford prison experiment, the importance of "grit" and "growth mindsets" e.g.) ends up either debunked or at least shown under replication to have vanishingly small effects.<p>During my time in my PhD program in science, I (voluntarily) went to two talks for my department and for the wider university about stereotype threat. It was a fascinating, compelling subject. But alas.<p>Contrast that with results in math or laboratory sciences. I'll read about something like the Sensitivity conjecture in Quanta or Scientific American and it might not be as inherently interesting, but at least I can somewhat trust that the result is "true". But that kind of scientific result never enters the mainstream where literally everyone in-the-know has heard of it.