Maxwell, Lau, and Howard proposed that multiple replications, rather than a single replication study, may be required to obtain enough statistical power to identify true psychological effects.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by the primary source (PubMed abstract) and corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources including Lindsay (2015) and an Annual Review of Psychology article, all converging on the same characterization of the claim. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Is psychology suffering from a replication crisis? What does ... (seed:psychology_and_neuroscience)
- https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Is-psychology-suffering-from-a-replication-crisis-Maxwell-Lau/44568dcd125eb2bd279290ded2cdedae0f089f47 (corroboration)
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797615616374 (corroboration)
- https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-122216-011845 (corroboration)