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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) by c0lo on Sunday August 30 2015, @12:58PM
If the "social scientists" would deal with populations on the order of 1023, I reckon the social sciences would be as accurate as chemistry (which is not that accurate as many people think, those equilibrium points for the reversible reactions are correct just statistically and, anyway, empirically determined).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 30 2015, @02:59PM
Actually I've once heard that some chemical reactions won't work if the chemist cleans his equipment too thoroughly.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.