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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by pavon on Saturday May 22, 2021 @12:22AM (#27243430)
> More specifically, this paper is focused on the social sciences.

No, it isn't. It looked at a few different fields, and found that the problem was actually worse for general science papers published in Nature/Science, where non-reproducible papers were cited 300 times more often as reproducible ones.

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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by nebulous1 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @09:30AM (#27246337)
I think you might be mistaken. The study of Nature/Science papers was "Evaluating replicability of social science experiments published in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015"
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