Scott E. Maxwell, Michael Y. Lau, and George S. Howard argued that a statistically significant original psychology study followed by a nonsignificant single replication does not necessarily constitute a genuine failure to replicate, because the replication may have had low statistical power.
Notes on verification
Confirmed directly by the original PubMed abstract and corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources (Lindsay 2015, arXiv 2016, PMC 2017) that consistently describe the same argument about statistical power and replication failures. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 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://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.09341 (corroboration)