Psience Quest

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.
  

Indeed!

Also sucks when companies or your stupid boss starts using it as if it were fact!