Global study reveals low reliability of research in psychology

GLOBAL Global study reveals low reliability of research in psychology TweetReplicability is a crucial aspect of research, pointed out study co-author Professor Brian Uzzi, a professor of leadership at Northwestern University in the United States. Findings that don’t replicate are flukes instead of facts.”It is especially important to the field of psychology, he told University World News. Another worrying finding is that social media attention is linked to research replication failure. Second, replication rates are strongly linked to research methods, with experiments replicating at a significantly lower rate than non-experimental studies. Uzzi told University World News: “The positive relationship between replication and publication productivity suggests that experience in doing research strengthens a researcher’s research.