More than half of psychology papers are not reproducible

Initiative to replicate findings of 100 prominent studies raises further questions about health of discipline

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August 27, 2015
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February 16, 2017
Paul Jump
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Print headline: Majority of psychology papers are not reproducible, study discovers

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#1 Submitted by ... on August 28, 2015 - 6:55am
If psychology is such an inexact social science, is it a science at all? - or if “the outcome does not speak directly to the validity or the falsity of the theories”, what was the point of the exercise?

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