The 'Replication Crisis' Could Be Worse Than We Thought, New Analysis Reveals

[PeteS in CA]

The 'Replication Crisis' Could Be Worse Than We Thought, New Analysis Reveals

https://www.sciencealert.com/non-replicable-studies-make-the-most-impact-scientists-find

The science replication crisis might be worse than we thought: new research reveals that studies with replicated results tend to be cited less often than studies which have failed to replicate.

That's not to say that these more widely cited studies with unreplicated experiments are necessarily wrong or misleading - but it does mean that, for one reason or another, follow-up research has failed to deliver the same result as the original study, yet it still gets loads of citations.

Thus, based on the new analysis, research that is more interesting and different appears to garner more citations than research with a lot of corroborating evidence.

Behavioral economists Marta Serra-Garcia and Uri Gneezy from the University of California analyzed papers in some of the top psychology, economy, and science journals; they found that studies that failed to replicate since their publication were on average 153 times more likely to be cited than studies that had – and that the influence of these papers is growing over time.

[Sled Dog]

Thought it was a Stargate SG-1 problem for a minute, there.

[massadvj]

".. research that is more interesting and different appears to garner more citations than research with a lot of corroborating evidence."

Duh.  Academics are humans.  Science is not objective. It never has been. That does not make it worthless, but it does make it flawed.  This is especially true of social science.  The social science literature is a giant echo chamber with a decidedly leftist political orientation. I say this as someone with over 20 published articles in academic journals.  The tragedy is that this literature is used to justify policy decisions that compromise human freedom and further enslave mankind through centralized control.

All we need to do is look at the completely unwarranted havoc that came out of the lock-downs to know that we do not want to assign our personal sovereignty over to the social engineers.