Monday, August 27, 2018

Testing the reproducibility of social science research

A team co-led by Gideon Nave of Penn's Wharton School replicated 21 high-profile social science studies and found discrepancies with the original research, including eight studies that failed to find significant evidence for the original finding. Researchers betting in prediction markets, however, were quite accurate at predicting which findings would replicate and which would not.

from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2wtdI4L

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