2015-vintage replication-crisis-era junk science floats into the news

So, I came across this news article titled, “Riley Thinks Suits Make the Coach. Research Says He Might Be Right.”: The suit had a classic name: the Clark Gable. Navy blue and cut just right, it was the creation of Giorgio Armani, the legendary Italian designer. It was the piece that made Pat Riley, the legendary NBA coach and executive, believe in the power of style. . . . “I think an audience wants to see somebody on the sidelines who looks like a leader, dresses like a leader, acts like a leader,” Riley said. It sounded like a bold claim. Sure, a business suit is undoubtedly nicer than the casual “athleisure” look — team-issue polos and pullovers — that NBA coaches adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic. But can a coat and tie really make someone more of a leader? “It’s a perfectly reasonable thing to think,” said Abe Rutchick, a professor of psychology at California State University, Northridge. “Which is the idea that the clothes we wear have psychological meaning. We put something…