Psychology is not in crisis Boston — IS psychology in the midst of a research crisis? An initiative called the Reproducibility Project at the University of Virginia recently reran 100 psychology experiments and found that over 60 percent of them failed to replicate — that is, their findings did not hold up the second time around. The results, published last […]
Psychology is in crisis over whether it’s in crisis That has reduced this fight to one over statistics, which obscures the bigger question: Why were those studies so difficult to do over in the first place? Psychology experiments have to deal with humans—stupid, finicky humans who might act differently depending on the time of day, whether or not they’ve eaten, if they had a […]