"Of 100 studies published in top-ranking journals in 2008, 75% of social psychology experiments and half of cognitive studies failed the replication test
Psychology experiments are failing the replication test – for good reason
A major investigation into scores of claims made in psychology research journals has delivered a bleak verdict on the state of the science.
An international team of experts repeated 100 experiments published in top psychology journals and found that they could reproduce only 36% of original findings.
The study, which saw 270 scientists repeat experiments on five continents, was launched by psychologists in the US in response to rising concerns over the reliability of psychology research...
...Munafo said that the problem of poor reproducibility is exacerbated by the way modern science works. “If I want to get promoted or get a grant, I need to be writing lots of papers. But writing lots of papers and doing lots of small experiments isn’t the way to get one really robust right answer,” he said. “What it takes to be a successful academic is not necessarily that well aligned with what it takes to be a good scientist.”
I just noticed TM's earlier post: 6 Reasons You Can't Trust Science Anymore By Matt J. Michel, with a similar theme. But, I think the "social science" fields are particularly infested with non-sciencism.
I've been pretty busy but want to come back to it. Seems like this study should shake to the core our confidence in these social psychology studies. When the conclusion is handed out ahead, with the money, the study does great harm to the finding of true science.
******* The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil ... but by those who watch them and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein
I've been pretty busy but want to come back to it. Seems like this study should shake to the core our confidence in these social psychology studies. When the conclusion is handed out ahead, with the money, the study does great harm to the finding of true science.
We're all jaded.
We already know that less than 50% of all studies are rigged and constrained by political correctness. When the Pope declares man-made global warming a done deal validated by a 'consensus' you know we're in big trouble.