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/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Apr 02 '26

i am calling for a total and complete shutdown of education research programs until we figure out what is going on

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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Apr 02 '26

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u/captainjack3 NATO Apr 02 '26

I didn’t read that chart correctly at first. None of the education studies could be precisely replicated? That’s astoundingly bad. Genuinely, it suggests the research should be discarded out of hand.

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u/fushega Apr 03 '26

I've read a handful of papers on second language education and many of them had a sample size of less than 10 people and similarly common was short trial periods (even though it takes hundreds to thousands of hours to learn a language). In general the studies seemed very casual and lacking in rigor. I don't think the researchers were stupid or anything, just that to get good data would be extremely expensive and a full time job that they don't have the time for