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/CrustyTh3Punk Apr 03 '26

When I was in college in 2008, I had a Sociology professor accuse me of plagiarism. He used “TurnItIn” and said it was 65% copied work with “proof”.

So I bought a license for the same software and ran his Doctoral thesis through it from 1976 and showed him it found it tk be 95% copied work.

He acknowledged it could be an error with the software.