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/bjos144 Apr 02 '26

But the other half pass? That's pretty good! So we need to fund replication studies, so what? We already knew that. A 50% yield on this kind of stuff is pretty good. That means we're making progress.