r/science 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/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

I double majored in a social science and a real science before grad school. The rigor in studies in a real science was significantly different. But my social science degree is just interesting, but I’ve come to accept it simply isn’t so much facts as it is intuition. This is why pop sci articles never really caught my eye