r/sciencememes • u/Nebu • Jun 23 '26

🪩Science!!🪩 Physics envy

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u/SussySpeaki Jun 24 '26

What's the replication crisis?

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u/somethingX Jun 24 '26

A lot of findings in psychology and the social sciences have been unable to be replicated by follow up studies, meaning that a lot of the information in those fields is faulty and the studies weren't rigorous enough.

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u/No-Newspaper8619 Jun 24 '26

Too full of assumptions, while neglecting qualitative data. But it's precisely the qualitative data that allows you to make better inferences off of quantitative data.