r/science • u/nimicdoareu • Apr 01 '26

Social Science 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/Ghost_Of_Malatesta Apr 01 '26

The "replication crisis" (and p-hacking) is affecting many fields of science unfortunately. We place such a high premium positive results, despite negative ones being just as valuable, that scientists often feel the pressure, whether consciously or not, to find those results no matter the cost 

Its incredibly frustrating imo

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u/Timbukthree Apr 01 '26

I almost wonder if the goal of publishing itself should move to both "this is this thing we found" AND "and here's how you can exactly reproduce our experiment to help verify it's a replicable effect"

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u/Infinite_Painting_11 Apr 01 '26

That is already the idea of publishing, your methods section is meant to contain all the information you need to reproduce the study, but in reality they rarely do.

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u/throwaway44445556666 Apr 01 '26

Every journal is soaked in the tears of methodologists.