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In the wake of a report released last week (August 28) in Science, which showed that just 39 percent of 100 studies published in 2008 in the top three psychology journals could be successfully reproduced, researchers are ready to clean up the field’s literature. The results come from a collaborative effort of 270 scientists working for The Reproducibility Project based at the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“It’s like we’ve come clean,” Alan Kraut, the executive director of the Association for Psychological Science, told The New York Times. “This kind of correction is something that has to happen across science, and I’m proud that psychology is leading the charge on this.”
According The New York Times, the study authors noted that the lack ...
