I completely agree, and I'm glad someone's on this thread reminding everyone about the terrible state that social science research is in. Human beings are comp

I completely agree, and I'm glad someone's on this thread reminding everyone about the terrible state that social science research is in. Human beings are complicated and difficult to study, so I can appreciate the challenge that social science researchers have in front of them. But, propagating conclusions from a field of research that has a 33% reproducibility rate is just negligent journalism. It's not true just because it's in one study and it matches our intuition or something we read in a Malcolm Gladwell book. 1. Over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test. http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...