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Comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science.”

Gilbert, Daniel T., King, Gary, Pettigrew, Stephen, Wilson, Timothy D.·2016·Science

Abstract

A paper from the Open Science Collaboration (Research Articles, 28 August 2015, aac4716) attempting to replicate 100 published studies suggests that the reproducibility of psychological science is surprisingly low. We show that this article contains three statistical errors and provides no support for such a conclusion. Indeed, the data are consistent with the opposite conclusion, namely, that the reproducibility of psychological science is quite high.

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  • Follow-up investigations did not support the claim that replication failures in the Reproducibility Project: Psychology were due to deficiencies in replication quality.

    “follow-up investigations did not support the claim that replication failures were due to deficiencies in replication quality”

    From Investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology (2021) · cites this paper as Gilbert et al., 2016

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Authors
Gilbert, D. T., King, G., Pettigrew, S., & Wilson, T. D.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University of Virginia (US)
Corresponding author
Gilbert, Daniel T.
Venue
Science
Published
2016-03-04
Volume
351
Issue
6277
Pages
1037-1037
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2290831829
Cited by
474
References
10
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 57 · 2019: 80 · 2018: 74 · 2017: 71 · 2016: 45 · 2015: 2
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
NSF (BCS-1423747)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
Keywords
reproducibility, replication, Open Science Collaboration, statistical errors, meta-analysis, replication study
MeSH terms
Psychology, Publishing, Research, Behavioral Research

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