Psychology's Replication Crisis Is Real, Many Labs 2 Says - The Atlantic - 1 views
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n recent years, it has become painfully clear that psychology is facing a “reproducibility crisis,” in which even famous, long-established phenomena—the stuff of textbooks and TED Talks—might not be real
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Ironically enough, it seems that one of the most reliable findings in psychology is that only half of psychological studies can be successfully repeated
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That failure rate is especially galling, says Simine Vazire from the University of California at Davis, because the Many Labs 2 teams tried to replicate studies that had made a big splash and been highly cited
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