This doesn't seem like quite the same issue as the reproducibility problems in psychology, for instance. Researchers were presented with some data, and they ca

This doesn't seem like quite the same issue as the reproducibility problems in psychology, for instance. Researchers were presented with some data, and they came up with different analyses for it. That doesn't seem especially surprising—for a complex phenomenon, where you don't have a ton of data, and maybe the thing you're studying isn't very strong—yeah, you're going to get different results. It's like people arguing over which sports team is better—the facts of the game are the facts of the game, but there's plenty of room for disagreement over what stats are most important, who has an easier season—and even if the two teams were to play each other directly, it's not always that the "better" team wins. But the reproducibility crisis in social sciences seemed much deeper—one team would say that some effect exists, and other teams would try to reproduce the results and come up with nothing.