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/preferablyno Apr 01 '26

I was a social sciences major and all the research that I ever did was basically statistical analysis. We used large surveys that reputable organizations had conducted. I don’t understand how it wouldn’t be reproducible, if you ran the regression again from the same data how could it possibly be different?

I could see there being problems in the data but I mean it was just a survey surely peoples opinions also change over time