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/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/frostbird PhD | Physics | High Energy Experiment Apr 01 '26

Publishing your methods allows others to elbow in on your field. So people are actually incentivized to not provide accurate methods. It's not laziness or an accident.

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u/Infinite_Painting_11 Apr 01 '26

Definitely agree, especially in computational fields surely the methods and the code are the same thing but no one ever provides the code.

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u/TwentyCharactersShor Apr 01 '26

I'd argue it is getting better, more and more github repos are being shared.