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Study: half of studies in psychology journals wrong
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<blockquote data-quote="Colter" data-source="post: 68527860" data-attributes="member: 90929"><p><a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/28/study-finds-studies-are-wrong" target="_blank">https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/28/study-finds-studies-are-wrong</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/28/study-finds-studies-are-wrong" target="_blank"><u>Study Finds: Studies Are Wrong</u></a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>A major project to reproduce study results from psychology journals found that more than half could not be replicated.</strong></span></p><p><a href="https://reason.com/people/peter-suderman/all" target="_blank"><u>Peter Suderman</u></a>|Aug. 28, 2015 10:59 am</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"One of the bedrock assumptions of science is that for a study's results to be valid, other researchers should be able to reproduce the study and reach the same conclusions. The ability to successfully reproduce a study and find the same results is, as much as anything, how we know that its findings are true, rather than a one-off result.</p><p></p><p>This seems obvious, but in practice, a lot more work goes into original studies designed to create interesting conclusions than into the rather less interesting work of reproducing studies that have already been done to see whether their results hold up.</p><p></p><p>That's why efforts like the Reproducibility Project, which attempted to retest findings from 100 studies in three top-tier psychology journals, are so important. As it turns out, findings from the majority of the studies the project attempted to redo could not be reproduced. <em>The New York Times"...</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Colter, post: 68527860, member: 90929"] [URL]https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/28/study-finds-studies-are-wrong[/URL] [SIZE=5][B][URL='https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/28/study-finds-studies-are-wrong'][U]Study Finds: Studies Are Wrong[/U][/URL][/B] [B]A major project to reproduce study results from psychology journals found that more than half could not be replicated.[/B][/SIZE] [URL='https://reason.com/people/peter-suderman/all'][U]Peter Suderman[/U][/URL]|Aug. 28, 2015 10:59 am "One of the bedrock assumptions of science is that for a study's results to be valid, other researchers should be able to reproduce the study and reach the same conclusions. The ability to successfully reproduce a study and find the same results is, as much as anything, how we know that its findings are true, rather than a one-off result. This seems obvious, but in practice, a lot more work goes into original studies designed to create interesting conclusions than into the rather less interesting work of reproducing studies that have already been done to see whether their results hold up. That's why efforts like the Reproducibility Project, which attempted to retest findings from 100 studies in three top-tier psychology journals, are so important. As it turns out, findings from the majority of the studies the project attempted to redo could not be reproduced. [I]The New York Times"...[/I] [/QUOTE]
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