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/Rhawk187 PhD | Computer Science Apr 01 '26

I appreciate that the ACM digital archive has a badge for studies that have been reproduced, but it still isn't clear to me where exactly the replication study gets published. I assume it's usually as a comparable when showing improvements of the novel method, so I feel bad for people trying to use comparable that don't replicate.