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Is There a Replication Crisis in Research?
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Is There a Replication Crisis in Research?

Knowledge at Wharton·@HashtagPLUS·about 1 month ago
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Wharton marketing professor Gideon Nave has collaborated with a multinational team of researchers on a project that aimed to replicate the results of 21 social science experiments published in the journals Nature and Science . According to the team’s research, only 13 studies found results that supported the original studies. A surprising 38% of these studies failed to produce the same results. The paper is titled, “ Evaluating the Replicability of Social Science Experience in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 ” and was published in Nature Human Behaviour . Nave joined Knowledge at Wharton to talk about the paper and what it means for the future of research. An edited transcript of the conversation follows. Knowledge at Wharton: We rely on research journals to vet what they publish, but studies like yours have shown that the results of high-profile experiments often can’t be replicated. Do you think there’s a “replication crisis,” as people are calling this?…

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