 AP Photo In 2005, the epidemiologist John Ioannidis provocatively claimed that "most published research findings are false". In the field of psychology – where negative results rarely see the light of day – we have a related problem: there is the very real possibility that many unpublished, negative findings are true. TAGGED: publication bias, reproducibility, psychologyRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| In the wake of several scandals in psychology research, scientists are asking themselves just how much of their research is valid.In the past 10 years, dozens of studies in the psychology field have been retracted, and several... more ›› |
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