
The Open Science Collaboration replicated 100 influential psychology studies and found only 36% held up, with effect sizes half as large. A larger pooled analysis showed 64% eventually replicated but with effects 32% smaller. A 186-researcher collaboration found 50% of 28 classic findings failed even with large samples. The crisis stems from publication bias (97% of positive industry results published vs 39% negative), researcher bias, and fraud cases. Psychology, medicine, and social sciences are all affected.
64% of landmark psychology studies failed to replicate — the 'replication crisis' revealed systemic problems in published science
“Most published research findings are probably false. The incentive structure of academic publishing has created a crisis of unreliable science.”
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