Researchers ought to be able to duplicate the findings of other scientists’ work, but a new study suggests that many published psychology results can’t be recreated.
A huge, collaborative research project attempted to recreate 100 studies that were recently published in major psychology journals, and it found that only 39 of those studies’ results could be replicated. That could mean that the studies were wrong in the first place, but researchers say that the findings tell more about the difficulty of designing a reproducible study than the accuracy of the studies themselves.
via The Verge
