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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 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 ...

In light of an estimated replication rate of only 36% out of 100 replication attempts conducted by the Open Science Collaboration in 2015 (OSC2015), many believe that experimental psychology suffers ...

Broad variation in the findings from 73 teams testing the same hypothesis with the same data. The distribution of estimated AMEs across all converged models (n = 1,253) includes results that are ...

The process of independently repeating earlier studies—by interrogating the same research questions, and employing the same or similar methods and data—is broadly considered the cornerstone of science ...

Studies that try to replicate the findings of published research are hard to come by: it can be difficult to find funders to support them and journals to publish them. And when these papers do get ...

In his essay on p-hacking, HARKing and dry labbing, Gary Smith calls attention to a number of problematic, if not fraudulent practices, which mean that published research findings are too often ...

A seven-year project found only half of tested social-science findings could be replicated, though researchers say scientific practices are improving. Can future events influence the present? A series ...

Daphne, an eager computer-vision scientist, encounters a novel study highly relevant to her autonomous vehicles research. The study uses computational methods to reveal hidden driving patterns. Aware ...

Scientific progress depends on results that can be repeated – yet across disciplines, too many experiments fail that test. From medicine to economics, the replication crisis reveals not just flawed ...