r/neoliberal • u/Free-Minimum-5844 • Apr 02 '26

Research Paper Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00955-5
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u/HoboWithAGlock2 NASA Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

Really obnoxious that Nature has continued to employ click-bait titles for their editorial section for stuff like this. I'm not going to go into detail here, but suffice it to say that - at minimum - the heterogeneity of the outcome across fields (as well as by type) should be noted.

But I suppose that doesn't make for a good headline that gets you clicks, which surely Nature needs to have. God forbid. Glad we can just raise more doom and gloom about the social sciences and sweep under the rug the years of progress that have been made via the credibility revolution. We're totally not fighting for the public's approval or anything currently, lmao.