Failure to Replicate
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(h/t: S. rex)
Aarts et al. describe the replication of 100 experiments reported in papers published in 2008 in three high-ranking psychology journals. Assessing whether the replication and the original experiment yielded the same result according to several criteria, they find that about one-third to one-half of the original findings were also observed in the replication study.Important result...though, of course, not exactly a stunning one.
(h/t: S. rex)
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We had a server cluster once whose software failed to replicate.
We trashed it and got new software.
Psychologists be warned.
In principle, roughly 5% of studies like this should be irreproducible, since pretty much all of them use standard statistical methods. 40% is crazy high.
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