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goatinaboat on Dec 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex ...

Replication crisis is a real phenomenon that will likely never go away unless we accept that social sciences will never have the rigor of hard sciences

The replication crisis afflicts hard science too.

andreilys on Dec 15, 2019 [–]

True, medicine especially.

Yet social sciences are particularly affected by this and there is currently no incentive to try to replicate existing studies.

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