Meaning of replication crisis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A crisis caused by the problem that many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce, casting doubt on the meaningfulness of their results in light of the requirements of the scientific method.
2. All replication crises, in all scientific fields or specialties, viewed collectively as a unitary, single epistemic crisis.

Examples

“It is not just the social sciences that are in the grip of replication crises.”

“In any crisis, there are the people who ask 'Crisis? What crisis?' Psychology's replication crisis is no exception. Almost as soon as the Open Science Collaboration published the results of its reproducibility project, there were critics who complained that the work itself was an example of spurious research in psychology.”

“One simple (albeit partial) solution to the “replication crisis” is to conduct studies that use samples large enough to produce good estimates of the associations of interest.”

“They argue that the larger part of the replication crisis is the lack of a cumulative theoretical framework: […]”

“AI is wrestling with a replication crisis.”

“Even Arturo Casadevall, an American microbiologist who has published extensively on the rate, distribution, and detection of fraud in science, told me that despite his personal interest in the topic, my time would be better served investigating the broader issues driving the replication crisis.”

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