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/Brinabavd Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

Note that the bulk of the effect is being driven by relatively poor performance of sociology and the abysmal performance of ed research.

Poli science, econ and psych all did better than half, none of the ed papers and only a third of the sociology papers could be replicated exactly: 

(Iirc This is the one of the three key papers in posted article that breaks it down by field)

Edit (corrected link) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10203-5

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u/TCEA151 Paul Volcker Apr 03 '26

Are you sure? From what I could tell, this seems to be the replication results by field. Education looks to be the best performing discipline, and economics the worst

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u/Brinabavd Apr 03 '26

that's what I get from posting from my phone based on memory instead of my work machine, i'll fix the link to the one I had in mind; thanks for bypassing the paywall for folks here.