a Team of scientists from the Center for open science in the U.S. in 2011 he took up the study of reproducibility 100 scientific works in psychology. Studies are considered reliable if the same result can be repeated for different groups of scientists. But repeating a hundred experiments, the Americans were shocked: only 39 results turned out to play.

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a Team of scientists from the Center for open science in the U.S. in 2011 he took up the study of reproducibility 100 scientific works in psychology. Studies are considered reliable if the same result can be repeated for different groups of scientists. But repeating a hundred experiments, the Americans were shocked: only 39 results turned out to play.

it Turned out that significant from the statistical point of view the results showed only 36 works. But the level of significance was almost two times lower than stated by the authors of these works. Just turned out to be irreproducible results from 61 studies, and 15 of them have been unable to reproduce.

Scientists chose articles that were published only in the most reputable and well-respected scientific journals, and therefore cautiously suggest that 80% of research in psychology can be irreproducible. Topics of the articles covered by the audit are related to various areas of psychological knowledge.