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> This seems to be on par with psychology and medicine. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis Thi
by idoubtit 8y ago
> This seems to be on par with psychology and medicine.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
This Wikipedia article does not state that around 40 % of the experiments in psychology and medicine are not reproducible.
Out of 45 medical studies: "16% were contradicted by subsequent studies, 16% had found stronger effects than did subsequent studies [...]". This not conclusive given the very small sample, but even if we set aside this, the non-replicated would be 16 % (no partial replication) or 32 % (no exact replication). Another factor of incertitude is that some of the 45 studies were not challenged, and we don't know why.
Out of 100 studies in psychology, "studies in the field of cognitive psychology had a higher replication rate (50%) than studies in the field of social psychology (25%)". Again, each of these rates in very uncertain, considering the sample size is around 50.
It seems that replication rate is around 70 % with medicine studies, 50 % in cognitive psychology, and under 30 % for social psychology. Economy, with a replication rate of 60 %, would do much better than psychology overall.