Re:First results from psychology’s largest reproducibility test
by danmaz74 on Saturday May 02, 2015 @12:41PM
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Ok, but one thing is to say that there are bad scientists in the field of psychology, and another one is to say psychology is not a science at all. It's not (and it can't be) an "exact" science, but it's science all the same.
> · Recent hand-wringing over failed replications in social psychology is largely pointless, because unsuccessful experiments have no meaningful scientific value.
> · Because experiments can be undermined by a vast number of practical mistakes, the likeliest explanation for any failed replication will always be that the replicator bungled something along the way. Unless direct replications are conducted by flawless experimenters, nothing interesting can be learned from them.
{edit: read the link. It's scary to read this stuff coming from a science PhD.}
Other psychologists have realised that there's a "crisis of replication" in psychology. But it's not just psychology, it affects other sciences (albeit to varying degrees) too.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...