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Study: More Than Half of Psychological Results Can't Be Reproduced

Posted by samzenpus on from the your-guess-is-a-good-as-mine dept.

Bruce66423 writes: A new study trying to replicate results reported in allegedly high quality journals failed to do so in over 50% of cases. Those of us from a hard science background always had our doubts about this sort of stuff — it's interesting to see it demonstrated — or rather, as the man says: 'Psychology has nothing to be proud of when it comes to replication,' Charles Gallistel, president of the Association for Psychological Science. Back in June a crowd-sourced effort to replicate 100 psychology studies had a 39% success rate.

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  1. Just out of curiosity ... by jc42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Has this study been replicated?

    Or is it perhaps a replication of an earlier study?

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    Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.