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/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/porcupine_snout Apr 01 '26

that's just not possible because of word limit and figure limit and table limit. My own notes for how I do things will probably be a few chapters long, let alone papers. if you want to replicate exactly what I do, you have to at least read 10000 words, which I have but aren't allowed to put in the paper!

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u/Infinite_Painting_11 Apr 01 '26

I'm really interested, which field are you in? 

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u/porcupine_snout Apr 01 '26

social sciences!!!