I look forward to the results of this study. Quite frankly, most soft science fields could use this sort of scrutiny. I’d also love to see how reproducible the studies done by medical doctors (as opposed to research scientists) are. Quite frankly, even the hard sciences have a lot of publications with problems, however, these erroneous results, especially if they are important to current topics of interest, are relatively quickly discovered since other labs often need to reproduce the results before moving forward.
I would add one caution. Failure to replicate an article’s results does not necessarily mean the results are wrong. It could simply mean the group trying to reproduce the results had any number of other problems.
I look forward to the results of this study. Quite frankly, most soft science fields could use this sort of scrutiny. I’d also love to see how reproducible the studies done by medical doctors (as opposed to research scientists) are. Quite frankly, even the hard sciences have a lot of publications with problems, however, these erroneous results, especially if they are important to current topics of interest, are relatively quickly discovered since other labs often need to reproduce the results before moving forward.
I would add one caution. Failure to replicate an article’s results does not necessarily mean the results are wrong. It could simply mean the group trying to reproduce the results had any number of other problems.