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Not only is the replication crisis not solely about psychology, the numbers are far worse than half for fields like chemistry, biology, and physics[0]. [0] htt

• ummonk 8y ago
  That's not what the numbers there are saying though. They're saying that over half of scientists have failed to replicate a single study (either their own or someone else's). It says nothing about the replicability of most studies.
• TangoTrotFox 8y ago
  This is completely incorrect, and that Wiki page has been written to be highly misleading to lead people to the same mistaken comparison as they're comparing entirely different numbers that look directly comparable. What that says is that e.g. 69% of scientists working in physics and engineering had failed to replicate some experiment at least once in their career. In other words if they performed 1000 replication attempts of other scientists' experiments and failed to reproduce the same results once, they would be counted in that survey. By contrast in psychology, one hallmark experiment tried to replicate the findings of 100 key studies in psychology from highly regarded psychology journals. And it was unable to replicate the findings of 64% of the studies. What's that number for physics? No idea other than that it's going to be much lower. Make sense? Wiki is, almost as a rule, just completely awful for contemporary or potentially controversial topics and this is a textbook example of that.