Report Scientists replicated 100 recent psychology experiments. More than half of them failed.

[tom_mai78101]

Replication is one of the foundational ideas behind science. It's when researchers take older studies and reproduce them to see if the findings hold up.

Testing, validating, retesting: It's all part of the slow and grinding process to arrive at some semblance of scientific truth.

Yet it seems that way too often, when we hear about researchers trying to replicate studies, they simply flop or flounder. Some have even called this a "crisis of irreproducibility."

Consider the newest evidence: a landmark study published today in the journal Science. More than 270 researchers from around the world came together to replicate 100 recent findings from top psychology journals. By one measure, only 36 percent showed results that were consistent with the original findings. In other words, many more than half of the replications failed.

Read more here. (Vox)

 

[Slapshot136]

I wonder how other fields compare

 

[jonas]

I am only surprised that it took them so long to figure it out. Probably a typical case of diffusion of responsibility? More bachelor's theses should be about replication of studies.

 

[seph ir oth]

Does that mean most of your other articles you've posted have been debunked, Tom?

 

[tom_mai78101]

Yes, I'm afraid those I posted are probably rekt.