"Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00955-5

"A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers [Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence, or #SCORE] has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested…In many cases, papers simply did not provide enough data or details for experiments to be repeated accurately…When some of SCORE’s team members attempted to reproduce the data analyses of 600 papers, they found that only 145 contained enough details to do so."

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Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project

Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for solutions.