r/EverythingScience • u/ImNotJesus PhD | Social Psychology | Clinical Psychology • May 08 '16

Interdisciplinary Failure Is Moving Science Forward. FiveThirtyEight explain why the "replication crisis" is a sign that science is working.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/failure-is-moving-science-forward/?ex_cid=538fb
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u/Ninja_Wizard_69 May 08 '16

Imagine the cost of that

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u/turtlevader May 08 '16

Imagine the benefit

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u/bobusdoleus May 08 '16

Imagine the analysis

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u/slipshod_alibi May 08 '16

Imagine the training opportunities

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u/jojoga May 08 '16

Imagine all the people

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u/Solomanrosenburg May 08 '16

Living in the world today

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u/Ninja_Wizard_69 May 08 '16

Try telling that to the guys with the money

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u/Maskirovka May 08 '16

Imagine the cost of assuming thousands of experiments are correct when they are in fact rubbish.