Friday, 28 August 2015

Many psychology studies fail the replication test

"Not everything we do gets published. Novel, positive and tidy results are more likely to survive peer review and this can lead to publication biases that leave out negative results and studies that do not fit the story that we have," he says.

"If this occurs on a broad scale, then the published literature may become more beautiful than the reality."

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