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Replication failures in psychology not due to differences in study populations

Brian Owens · November 19, 2018 ·

Half of 28 attempted replications failed even under near-ideal conditions.

A large-scale effort to replicate results in psychology research has rebuffed claims that failures to reproduce social-science findings might be down to different study populations being used.

The drive recruited labs around the world to try to replicate the results of 28 classic and contemporary psychology experiments. Only half were reproduced successfully using a strict threshold for significance. Read more in Nature.

Nature Many Labs 2, psychology, replication

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