Scientists are fighting about whether a major psychology study is totally wrong

Scientists are duking it out over whether a study on reproducibility has a reproducible conclusion. The high-profile study reported last year that many psychology findings can’t be replicated, but a separate group of researchers now claim the finding is severely flawed. Today in the journal Science, both sides of the debate are squaring off. One side says psychology has a problem. The other side says: actually, you just suck at analysis. The dispute all at once speaks to why we need more reproducibility in science and questions whether there really is a reproducibility crisis at all.
#Science #reproducibility http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/3/11152796/psychology-reproducibility-fight-between-scientists Scientists are duking it out over whether a study on reproducibility has a reproducible conclusion. The high-profile study reported last year that many psychology findings can’t be replicated, but…

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