Rebuilding after the replication crisis
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Rebuilding after the replication crisis
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Re: Rebuilding after the replication crisis
#2Plack said, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it ..."
I wish I could be more hopeful, but it seems like a large portion of researchers in fields like psychology are too worried about their prior, poor quality research to embrace change.
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#4How could any replication study sample from the same pattern of people, given that there are so many cultures with different ways of living, eating, spending time etc. All of these cultures also constantly change. Universal representativity is unattainable, so any replication will have a number of unknown sample variables that changed. This is still not highlighted enough in most papers I read.
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#5How could any replication study sample from the same pattern of people, given that there are so many cultures with different ways of living, eating, spending time etc. All of these cultures also constantly change. Universal representativity is unattainable, so any replication will have a number of unknown sample variables that changed. This is still not highlighted enough in most papers I read.
If the result isn't stable across samples how valid is the result?
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#7>One of my formative experiences as a PhD student, in 2011, was submitting a replication study to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, only to be told that the journal did not publish replications under any circumstances (you might be thinking, “WTF?” — and we were too).
A while back, I asked a psychology professor why replication studies were frowned upon. She said something like "studies need to be unique and never been done before" and "there's no money in replicating someone else's work". That's why replication studies are frowned upon.
If that's true, then I'm guessing we'll continue to get more Amy Cuddy's popping out of the social sciences.
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got dumped by a psychologist?
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#9This article is worth a read if you want a good overview of where we are in the uphill fight against the replication crisis. If you only have time to read the article or the comments here on HN, skip the comments this time.
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#10Replication, not reptilian. The title makes more sense now.