Did some forum searching before posting this and I’m surprised this hasn’t been posted yet but DDoS probably played a part.
Last week, University of Virginia released the results of its Reproducibility Project which began in 2011. It found they were only about to recreate the 39 out of 100 experiments from published psychology studies. Further the effectiveness of repeating the experiments dropped as it shifted from cognitive psych to social psychology (bullshit)
The project researchers cited 3 reasons for the issues:
Given that we know must of the research from psychology is usually about some SJW concern, it’s not surprising that immediately afterwards the liberal press went into damage control mode.
I don’t think anyone here is shocked with the outcomes of the project. Of course the media will latch onto the excuses that project researchers couldn’t completely replicate the test conditions or the chance issues reproducing an experiment as reasons for the results. But, the fact is even when the project did reproduce the experiment “successfully”, the effect was almost always less profound.
Also no one wants to mention the great joke that psychology experiments in general are all just done on bored, hungry college students that want the $10- $20 to be a test subject.
Last week, University of Virginia released the results of its Reproducibility Project which began in 2011. It found they were only about to recreate the 39 out of 100 experiments from published psychology studies. Further the effectiveness of repeating the experiments dropped as it shifted from cognitive psych to social psychology (bullshit)
Quote:Scientific America Wrote:http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...-research/
Of interest, the authors found that some types of studies were more likely to be replicated than others. Only about 25 percent of the 57 social psychology studies included in the project were successfully replicated whereas 50 percent of the 43 cognitive psychology ones were. The social psychology studies also had weaker effect sizes. In addition, the simpler the design of the original experiment, the more reliable its results. The researchers also found that “surprising” effects were less reproducible.
The project researchers cited 3 reasons for the issues:
Quote:Quote:http://as.virginia.edu/news/massive-coll...s-findings
1)Though most replication teams worked with the original authors to use the same materials and methods, small differences in when, where or how the replication was carried out might have influenced the results.
2)The replication might have failed, by chance, to detect the original result.
3) The original result might have been a false positive. [Cibo:Basically they fucked up]
Given that we know must of the research from psychology is usually about some SJW concern, it’s not surprising that immediately afterwards the liberal press went into damage control mode.
Quote:New York Times Wrote:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/opinio...risis.html
As with any scientific field, psychology has some published studies that were conducted sloppily, and a few bad eggs who have falsified their data. But contrary to the implication of the Reproducibility Project, there is no replication crisis in psychology. The “crisis” may simply be the result of a misunderstanding of what science is.
I don’t think anyone here is shocked with the outcomes of the project. Of course the media will latch onto the excuses that project researchers couldn’t completely replicate the test conditions or the chance issues reproducing an experiment as reasons for the results. But, the fact is even when the project did reproduce the experiment “successfully”, the effect was almost always less profound.
Also no one wants to mention the great joke that psychology experiments in general are all just done on bored, hungry college students that want the $10- $20 to be a test subject.