Research findings that are probably wrong cited far more than robust ones, #study finds

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/21/research-findings-that-are-probably-wrong-cited-far-more-than-robust-ones-study-finds

The study in #Science Advances is the latest to highlight the “replication crisis” where results, mostly in social science and medicine, fail to hold up when other #researchers try to repeat experiments. Following an influential paper in 2005 titled Why most published research findings are false, three major projects have found replication rates as low as 39% in psychology journals, 61% in economics journals, and 62% in social science studies published in the Nature and Science, two of the most prestigious journals in the world.

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