SCIENTIFIC REGRESS.

The article discusses the challenges facing contemporary science. It is said that 65 percent of psychology experiments failed to show statistical significance on replication, and the rest showed greatly reduced effect sizes. A group of researchers at Bayer in 2011 examined sixty-seven recent drug di...

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Publicado en:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life no. 263; pp. 37 - 43
Autor principal: Wilson, William A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Institute on Religion & Public Life May2016
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Sumario:The article discusses the challenges facing contemporary science. It is said that 65 percent of psychology experiments failed to show statistical significance on replication, and the rest showed greatly reduced effect sizes. A group of researchers at Bayer in 2011 examined sixty-seven recent drug discovery projects and found that in more than 75 percent of cases the published data did not match up with their in-house attempts to replicate.