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4. 10/1/2018 Alarming Reproducibility Crisis Invading Social Sciences Journals - EnagoAcademy AlarmingReproducibilityCrisisInvadingSocial SciencesJournals Last updated Sep 26,2018 Reproducibilitycrisishasaffectedthescientikccommunityformorethanadecadenow.Thiscrisishasraised doubtsaboutthevalidityofscientikcstudiesandpaperspublishedinacademicjournals.Whenscientistsand researchersattemptedtoreproducetheexperimentsinthesepapers,theywereunabletoyieldthesameresults. Recently,researcherscouldreproduceonly8outof50cancerresearchpapersinthelongdurationof5years. Aftercancerbiology,asarecentstudyhasshown,thereproducibilitycrisishasspreadtosocialsciences. ReproducibilityinSocialSciences ArecentstudyinNature’sHumanBehaviorillustratesthereachofthiscrisis.Acollaborativeteamofresearchers fromagroupofuniversitiesdecidedtolookintoit.Theteamattemptedtoreproducethekndingsin21studies topicsofsocialsciencesuchaslinkbetweenanalyticalthinkingandreligiousskepticism,anxietyandperformance during examsetc. originallypublishedinScienceandNature,twoleadingscientikcjournals.Thesearticleswerebasedonseveral https://www.enago.com/academy/alarming-reproducibility-crisis-invading-social-sciences-journals/

5. 10/1/2018 Alarming Reproducibility Crisis Invading Social Sciences Journals - EnagoAcademy Theresultsobtainedconkrmedthereproducibilitycrisisinthesocialscienceskeld.Morethanone-third(8of21) ofthepublishedstudiescouldnotbereproduced.Inaddition,theevidencefoundintheotherstudiesshowed weaklinksbetweenthekndingsintheoriginalstudiesandtheconclusionsofthereproducibilitytests. WhatdotheResearchersSay? Sincetwoofthemostprestigiousjournalsinthescientikccommunityhadpublishedthesearticles,theseresults cameintonotice.BrianNosekoftheUniversityofVirginiainCharlottesvillesaysthatthesetypesofhigh-prokle kndingscanreceivesignikcantmediaattention.However,theattentionisnotalwayspositive;someofitmaybe negative aswell. Usingthestudyofstressandperformanceduringexamsasanexample,Nosekfeelsthatthesestudiesstillyield importantinformation.However,hedidadmitthatsomekndingsinthestudycouldnotbereplicated.Hesaysthat thiscouldbeduetosomeminorchange,likethedifferencesinthesamplesizesusedintheexperiments.Inthat case,Noseksays,“studiesthatobtainasignikcantresultarelikelytobeexaggerationsoftheactualeffectsize.” ReproducibilityinCrisis:TrueorFalse? Someclaimthekndingsareexaggeratedwhilesomeclaimthemtobesimplyfalse.However,thisisstillaserious issue for the larger scientikc and academic communities. According to Magnus Johannesson of the Stockholm SchoolofEconomics,theresultsshowthatcautiousinterpretationof‘statisticallysignikcant’scientikckndingsis amust.Evenifthemostprestigiousjournalspublishtheresearch,thereplicationoftheexperimentismandatory. Toaddressthis,theacademiccommunityconductedseveralreproducibilitystudiesovertheyears.Oneexampleis the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology (RP:CB) that began in 2013. This project set out to test the reproducibilityof50signikcantstudiesincancerbiology.Todate,theresultsfor10replicationstudieshavebeen published oneLife. FutureofScientikcReproducibility Theimplicationsofthereproducibilitycrisisarewide-ranginginsocialsciencesandacademiaasawhole.Two yearsago,thekeldofpsychologymadeheadlineswhentwoclassicstudiesfailedreproducibilitytests.According to John Ioannidis of Stanford University, more such studies could improve the accuracy of the knowledge produced.Ioannidisandmanyothersseetheattentionthatreproducibilitycrisisreceivedasbenekcialforthe scientikcandacademiccommunities.Moresuchresearchprojects,liketheReproducibilityProjectandthestudy inNature’sHumanBehavior,willbringoutthereproducibilitycrisisinacademia,therebyeliminatingit. Intheend,theinitiativetakentoinvestigatethevalidityofscientikcstudiescanhelpsocietyinendlessways. Ifthisapproachworksinacademia,whatotherareasoflifecanbenektfromthisinvestigationandscrutiny? Pleaseshareyourthoughtswithusinthecommentssectionbelow.  Scientikctransparency  https://www.enago.com/academy/alarming-reproducibility-crisis-invading-social-sciences-journals/

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