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

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. Re:Comparison? by Halo1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    In spite of the gut feeling of the submitter, it's not much better in at least computer science: http://reproducibility.cs.ariz...

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