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April 22, 2016
The problem with science is that so much of it simply isn’t.
Open Science Collaboration announced that it had tried to replicate one hundred published psychology experimentssampled from three of the most prestigious journals in the field. Scientific claims rest on the idea that experiments repeated under nearly identical conditions ought to yield approximately the same results, but until very recently, very few had bothered to check in a systematic way whether this was actually the case. The OSC was the biggest attempt yet to check a field’s results, and the most shocking. In many cases, they had used original experimental materials, and sometimes even performed the experiments under the guidance of the original researchers. Of the studies that had originally reported positive results, an astonishing 65 percent failed to show statistical significance on replication, and many of the remainder showed greatly reduced effect sizes. Scientific Regress by William A. Wilson | Articles | First Things
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"The Journal of Irreproducible Results" may want to think about going weekly!
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at April 23, 2016 6:58 AM