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Are you aware of the scale of failure here? The article (referring to the executive summary here) gives some really incredible figures. In psychology 100 reprod
by TangoTrotFox 9y ago
Are you aware of the scale of failure here? The article (referring to the executive summary here) gives some really incredible figures. In psychology 100 reproducibility studies were only able to produce statistically significant results from 36% of prominent papers - compared to the 97% of the original studies. In biotech, a firm tried to reproduce 53 "landmark" studies in hematology and oncology - only 6 could be replicated.
The reason this is being called a 'crisis' is because it's looking like the vast majority of science, particularly in the social and human physiological sciences, is junk.
- 3JPLW 9y agoAbsolutely! I'm only addressing the common misconception in the grandparent that the p-value is the percent likelihood that the effect is real. That's not at all accurate. There are definitely other reasons that lead us to such horrifying results — especially in fields where experimenters _do_ conduct experiments seemingly at random and without a reasonable pathway of action (I'm looking at you, social psychology and friends).