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datakantoday at 8:39 PM4 repliesview on HN

Replication crisis. More than half of all psychology studies are not reproducible.

I'm at the point honestly, where I don't even consider psychology to be a science anymore.


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zajio1amtoday at 9:36 PM

The replication crisis is not limited to psychology, that was just the first area where it was noted. I saw some meta-study comparing multiple social sciences and according to it replication failure in sociology and educational science was even worse than in psychology.

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vehemenztoday at 8:48 PM

I wouldn’t assume the cause of the replication crisis is 100% due to a lack of rigor in psychology and the other relevant fields. These fields deal with concepts and phenomena that are often abstract and difficult to measure. In some sense, it’s just harder.

Besides, deciding what is and isn’t science is a question for the philosophy of science, not science itself.

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danielmarkbrucetoday at 8:51 PM

If you ever took psych 101, it was immediately obvious it's mostly horse shit. Made up nonsense theory, with studies that have few participants and are done by people who don't know math.

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majorchordtoday at 8:48 PM

> More than half of all psychology studies are not reproducible.

Do you have a source for this?

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