Psychology studies that go viral are likelier to be bogus
Quote:A new 20-year analysis of over 14,000 psychology studies finds that a study's media coverage is negatively linked to its replicability.
Quote:Key Takeaways
- Researchers ran a text-analyzing machine learning model on over 14,000 psychology papers published in top journals between 2000 and 2019, assessing each paper's likelihood of being replicated.
- They found that highly cited papers were no more likely to be replicated. They also found that papers which received more media attention were less likely to be replicated.
- There was some good news from the research. Between 2010 and 2019, average replication scores increased, hinting that psychology as a field may be growing more rigorous.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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