Replication Crysis
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Hey,
While writing about these fallacies, I came across an interesting event called Replication Crysis.
Let me tell you more about it.
What is it?
The replication is an ongoing methodological crisis in which it has been found that the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to reproduce.
Because the reproducibility of empirical results is an essential part of the scientific method, such failures undermine the credibility of theories building on them and potentially substantial parts of scientific knowledge.
Where does it occur?
The replication crisis most severely affects the social and medical sciences, where considerable efforts have been undertaken to re-investigate classic results, to determine both their reliability and, if found unreliable, the reasons for the failure.
Survey data strongly indicates that all-natural sciences are affected as well.
Why do I need to know?
When effects are wrongly stated as relevant in the literature, failure to detect this by replication will lead to the canonization of such false facts.
Concerns have been expressed within the scientific community that the general public may consider science less credible due to failed replications. Research supporting this concern is sparse, but a nationally representative survey in Germany showed that more than 75% of Germans have not heard of replication failures in science.
The study also found that most Germans have positive perceptions of replication efforts: Only 18% think that non-replicability shows that science cannot be trusted, while 65% think that replication research shows that science applies quality control, and 80% agree that errors and corrections are part of science.
References & Studies: -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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