An analysis of thousands of social science studies found that half couldn't be replicated. What's behind this pattern, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some research teams work on replicating prior studies to assess the value of a body of work. AzmanL/E+ via Getty Images Back in ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

The vibrations of the “replication crisis” continue to be felt throughout the social sciences, and particularly within psychology. Being able to replicate findings is among the most fundamental ...

Broad variation in the findings from 73 teams testing the same hypothesis with the same data. The distribution of estimated AMEs across all converged models (n = 1,253) includes results that are ...

The vast majority of experimental work in behavioral and biomedical science involves group comparison—in the simplest case, an experimental and a control group. Average data are compared and the ...