Maybe, they should start with their fellow social scientists and change their behavior towards publishing garbage (ie non-reproducible, p-hacked) papers.
In truth, there is likely to be a massive selection effect, just like with charter schools. Basically, the people who want to change will enroll in the study. We basically know that a subset of people have enough motivation to make themselves better and that is whom the studies will select.
Finally, this improving human "frailty" has a horrible track record in terms of perpetrating horrible atrocities - from the Inquisition to the Soviet gulags. Often, the most evil people in their own eyes have only the purest motives for the good of humanity.
Social sciences may produce a lot of "garbage", but they do have at some point failed to avoid learning the most banal ideas about statistical thinking, which do include selection bias.
In truth, there is likely to be a massive selection effect, just like with charter schools. Basically, the people who want to change will enroll in the study. We basically know that a subset of people have enough motivation to make themselves better and that is whom the studies will select.
Finally, this improving human "frailty" has a horrible track record in terms of perpetrating horrible atrocities - from the Inquisition to the Soviet gulags. Often, the most evil people in their own eyes have only the purest motives for the good of humanity.