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30/09/2015 GMT

More or Less: How Reliable is Psychology Science?

BBC World Service - The Essential, More or Less: How Reliable is Psychology Science?

How reliable are psychological science studies? Tim Harford finds out.

Is there a crisis in psychology science after a review found that only a third of studies were replicable? Tim Harford finds out.

The Reproducibility of Psychological Science project reported recently and it made grim reading. Having replicated 100 psychological studies published in three psychology journals only 36 had significant results compared to 97% first time around. So is there a problem with psychological science and what should be done to fix it.

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