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• nequo 4y ago
  The footnote provided[1] for this sentence in the intro does not actually mention the word "natural": Data strongly indicate that other natural, and social sciences are affected as well. It only writes that physicists and chemists are the most confident in their fields' results, and that a biochemistry graduate student is complaining about the effort it takes to replicate results. It also writes that 70+% of researchers have failed to replicate an experiment. But that is very far from saying that 70+% of all experiments don't replicate. And the figure given by parent is 90+%. The Prevalence section of the Wikipedia page talks about psychology, medicine, economics, and other social sciences. Medicine is arguably a natural science. But parent’s comment made me think it’s referring to results in physics or chemistry. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a