The world is full of statements like “there is a study that says that…” or “according to a study…”. Added to this is a large number of statements that traditionally have been taken for granted but have never been replicated. Welcome to the replicability crisis galloping that you have been suffering from recently.
This problem is particularly insidious in the field of soft sciences, such as psychology, sociology, etc. That is, sciences where there are too many variables and the complexity is so high that stating anything It should be done with care that you are moving through a terrain full of mines.
Studies in doubt
In short, it is possible that the number of false positives in the scientific literature is much higher than desirable due to a combination of low statistical power, publication bias, and flexibility in analyzing the data. And that is why we are experiencing this great replication crisis.
Next, I am going to present to you some of the most popular statements in psychology and sociology that, however, have not been able to be replicated. This does not mean that they are necessarily false, but rather that the evidence we have of their veracity is very weak.:
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The news
24 statements supported by psychology studies that have not been satisfactorily replicated
was originally published in
Xataka Science
by
Sergio Parra
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