Debating Psychology's Replication Crisis

Should psychology researchers focus more on confirming old results and less on new discoveries?

By Jonathon Keats
Aug 25, 2016 8:00 PMNov 19, 2019 11:01 PM
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For more than 50 years, psychologists have worried about the robustness of research in their field. Many studies have never been replicated, meaning nobody knows what the results would be if they were repeated in another lab. Last year, psychologist Brian Nosek led a consortium of nearly 300 scientists who published the first attempt to estimate the reproducibility rate in psychology by redoing 98 recent studies.

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