PSYC19H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Yong 2015: Reproducibility, Brian Nosek, Precognition
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Brian nosek got 270 peers to repeat 100 published psychological experiments to see if they could get the same results the second time. This was known as the reproducibility project: first big systematic attempt the question what proportion of results in the field is reliable. Few signs have hinted that the reliable proportion might be small. Psychology has been hit with some controversies including. Publication of studies that documented impossible effects like precognition kinda like esp. Psychology suffers from publication bias journals tend to only publish positive results and negative drawers are put into file drawers. Also, several questionable practices have become commonly accepted. Might check to see if they have statistically significant date before deciding to collect more. Or reporting only the successful experiments out of the total conducted. P-hacking attempts to get positive results out of ambiguous data. All this threatens the credibility of psychology as a field.
