Science is suffering from a replication crisis. Too many landmark studies can’t be repeated in independent labs, a process crucial to separating flukes and errors from solid results. The consequences ...
The replication crisis in psychology refers to concerns about the credibility of findings in psychological science. The term, which originated in the early 2010s, denotes that findings in behavioral ...
It has been called “galling” and “worse than we thought.” It risks demolishing the technocratic case for “expertise.” Nearly two decades into science’s replication crisis, have scholars, researchers, ...
Some research teams work on replicating prior studies to assess the value of a body of work. AzmanL/E+ via Getty Images Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for ...
We are awash in articles reporting new study results. Whether it’s a potential cure for an illness, daunting statistics about health care outcomes, or the latest take on what makes a healthy diet, ...
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, by Stuart Ritchie, (Metropolitan Books: July 2020), 353 pages In 2011, psychologist Daryl Bem published a paper ...
There has been a new academic idol for the past few years. His philosopher king status and the influence of the “replication crisis” only came to my attention because of Twitter, the most highly ...
The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego is shown in this photograph from Aug. 23, 2019. Photo by Zoë Meyers/inewsource Unreplicated papers published in leading psychology, economic and science ...
A replication crisis has called into question results from behavioral (and other) sciences. Complaints have focused on poor statistical methods, the burying of negative results, and other ...
The University of Luxembourg's Department of Social Sciences contributed to a large-scale replication study that aimed to understand the role of decisions that scientists make during the research ...