Rigorous research practices improve scientific replication stanford.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stanford.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Roughly two decades ago, a community-wide reckoning emerged concerning the credibility of published literature in the social-behavioral sciences, especially psychology. Several large scale studies attempted to reproduce previously published findings to no avail or to a much lesser magnitude, sending the credibility of the findings -; and future studies in social-behavioral sciences -; into question.
Research: Social-Behavioral Findings Show High Replicability miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In a six year study, labs at UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, Stanford and U of Virginia, discovered and replicated 16 novel findings in social-behavioral studies using the best available research practices. Their findings suggest that with best practices, high replicability is achievable.