In 2015, Brian Nosek's lab attempted to replicate 100 stu…

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In 2015, Brian Nosek's lab attempted to replicate 100 studies from three psychology journals and was unable to reproduce a large portion of the original findings.

Sources

Leaning into the replication crisis: Why you should consider conducting replication research (apa.org)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac4716 (science.org)
https://as.virginia.edu/news/massive-collaboration-testing-reproducibility-psychology-studies-publishes-findings (as.virginia.edu)

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