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Science is a messy, error fraught business, which is why reproducibility is so essential. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be one of psychology's strong suits, according to a massive analysis published yesterday in Science.
A years-long effort to reproduce more than 100 psychology studies across three leading journals paints a pretty dismal picture. When re-tested by independent research psychologists, the conclusions of more than 60 studies on personality, relationships, learning, and memory, turned out to be far less whelming. Strongly significant findings often became weaker, while weakly significant findings became non-existent.
http://gizmodo.com/a-lot-of-published-psychology-results-are-bullshit-1727228060
[Source]: The New York Times
(Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday August 30 2015, @10:45AM
It is also true the much of what is published as hogwash is actually psychology. When I worked on a hog farm, we had many cases where the pigs did not come clean, only to discover that the wash we had used on the porkers was actually psychology! Boy, did we feel embarrassed! But not as much as the psychologists when we caught up with them! Two stood out, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, their stuff was supposed to prevent outbreaks of spontaneous swine explosion, but instead they kept having relations with the subjects in violation of the hogwashers code of ethics. We decided to give them their own medicine, and boy did they squeal all the way home, to nice retirements funded by non-psychologists. So I guess what I am saying is, when you are trying to wash hogs, get the real hogwash. And when you are doing psychology, avoid people who like to support torture. And try not to confuse the two.