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Is there a list of well-known studies that have been overturned because they haven't been reproducible? I'm wondering how much "common knowledge" that has come
by morley 8y ago
Is there a list of well-known studies that have been overturned because they haven't been reproducible? I'm wondering how much "common knowledge" that has come from those studies is actually true or not.
- nonbel 8y agoThere are, but the "replication studies" tend to change little details for whatever reason so they aren't really checking for reproduciblity anyway. I don't mean details like where/when the study was performed, because obviously the original authors thought it would generalize beyond their exact sample. I mean they will change the methods to ask different questions on a survey, etc. Also, they use statistical significance vs not to determine if the same result was observed (rather than having quantitatively similar results)... The entire situation is ridiculous. You can start here though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility_Project
- nnash 8y agoScience, in general, has had a reproducibility problem for some time now. There was a big article about it in Nature a couple of years ago. https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970 https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on...