Science just published a piece showing that only a third of articles from major psychology journals can be replicated. That is, if you reran the experiments, only a third of experiments will have statistically significant results. The details of the studies matter as well. The higher the p-value, the less like you were to replicate and “flashy” results were less likely to replicate.
Insider Education spoke to me and other sociologists about the replication issue in our discipline. A major issue is that there is no incentive to actually assess research since it seems to be nearly impossible to publish replications and statistical criticisms in our major journals:
Recent research controversies in sociology also have brought replication concerns to the fore. Andrew Gelman, a professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University, for example, recently published a paper about the difficulty of pointing out possible statistical errors in a…
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