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I'm curious how this study compares to the average research coming from social sciences which seems to be generally accepted as valid.

andreilys 7y ago
I don’t think most people accept social science research as valid. Replication crisis is a real phenomenon that will likely never go away unless we accept that social sciences will never have the rigor of hard sciences. More often than not it’s wielded as a political tool to support pre-existing biases and positions. Also it doesn’t help that academia doesn’t reward those who seek to replicate studies which likely hides the magnitude of the problem. “ According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported that 70% of them had failed to reproduce at least one other scientist's experiment (50% had failed to reproduce one of their own experiments). In 2009, 2% of scientists admitted to falsifying studies at least once and 14% admitted to personally knowing someone who did” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
- datashow 7y ago
  Experimental studies have replication crisis, but the studies on this topic are not experimental studies. They are based on survey data and statistical analysis. They do have their challenges, but have nothing to do with the replication crisis.
  - andreilys 7y ago
    If we were to try to replicate this study by sampling a different cohort of individuals we would likely see very different results.
    - FabHK 7y ago
      What makes you say that? You have heard of the replication crisis - don’t you think that the researchers in that very field have heard of the replication crisis?
- goatinaboat 7y ago
  Replication crisis is a real phenomenon that will likely never go away unless we accept that social sciences will never have the rigor of hard sciences The replication crisis afflicts hard science too.
  - andreilys 7y ago
    True, medicine especially. Yet social sciences are particularly affected by this and there is currently no incentive to try to replicate existing studies.

andreilys 7y ago

I don’t think most people accept social science research as valid. Replication crisis is a real phenomenon that will likely never go away unless we accept that social sciences will never have the rigor of hard sciences. More often than not it’s wielded as a political tool to support pre-existing biases and positions. Also it doesn’t help that academia doesn’t reward those who seek to replicate studies which likely hides the magnitude of the problem. “ According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported that 70% of them had failed to reproduce at least one other scientist's experiment (50% had failed to reproduce one of their own experiments). In 2009, 2% of scientists admitted to falsifying studies at least once and 14% admitted to personally knowing someone who did” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

datashow 7y ago
Experimental studies have replication crisis, but the studies on this topic are not experimental studies. They are based on survey data and statistical analysis. They do have their challenges, but have nothing to do with the replication crisis.
- andreilys 7y ago
  If we were to try to replicate this study by sampling a different cohort of individuals we would likely see very different results.
  - FabHK 7y ago
    What makes you say that? You have heard of the replication crisis - don’t you think that the researchers in that very field have heard of the replication crisis?
goatinaboat 7y ago
Replication crisis is a real phenomenon that will likely never go away unless we accept that social sciences will never have the rigor of hard sciences The replication crisis afflicts hard science too.
- andreilys 7y ago
  True, medicine especially. Yet social sciences are particularly affected by this and there is currently no incentive to try to replicate existing studies.