"Of 100 studies published in top-ranking journals in 2008, 75% of social psychology experiments and half of cognitive studies failed the replication test

Psychology experiments are failing the replication test – for good reason

A major investigation into scores of claims made in psychology research journals has delivered a bleak verdict on the state of the science.

An international team of experts repeated 100 experiments published in top psychology journals and found that they could reproduce only 36% of original findings.

The study, which saw 270 scientists repeat experiments on five continents, was launched by psychologists in the US in response to rising concerns over the reliability of psychology research...

...Munafo said that the problem of poor reproducibility is exacerbated by the way modern science works. “If I want to get promoted or get a grant, I need to be writing lots of papers. But writing lots of papers and doing lots of small experiments isn’t the way to get one really robust right answer,” he said. “What it takes to be a successful academic is not necessarily that well aligned with what it takes to be a good scientist.”

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/...nt-results";

I just noticed TM's earlier post: 6 Reasons You Can't Trust Science Anymore By Matt J. Michel, with a similar theme. But, I think the "social science" fields are particularly infested with non-sciencism.

Oh, good!

I was beginning to feel like this:

(Well, except that I would never wear horizontal stripes.)