Why Did It Take So Many Decades for the Behavioral Sciences to Develop a Sense of Crisis Around Methodology and Replication?

For several decades, leading behavioral scientists have offered strong criticisms of the common practice of null hypothesis significance testing as producing spurious findings without strong theoretical or empirical support. But only in the past decade has this manifested as a full-scale replication...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:0f10965fbdb849c7bc3ee688d0acb2df2021-11-24T22:42:01ZWhy Did It Take So Many Decades for the Behavioral Sciences to Develop a Sense of Crisis Around Methodology and Replication?2159-785510.2458/jmmss.3062https://doaj.org/article/0f10965fbdb849c7bc3ee688d0acb2df2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jmmss/article/id/3062/https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jmmss/article/3062/galley/3104/download/https://doaj.org/toc/2159-7855For several decades, leading behavioral scientists have offered strong criticisms of the common practice of null hypothesis significance testing as producing spurious findings without strong theoretical or empirical support. But only in the past decade has this manifested as a full-scale replication crisis. We consider some possible reasons why, on or about December 2010, the behavioral sciences changed.Andrew GelmanSimine VazireUniversity of Arizona LibrariesarticleSocial sciences (General)H1-99ENJournal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2021)
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Why Did It Take So Many Decades for the Behavioral Sciences to Develop a Sense of Crisis Around Methodology and Replication?
description For several decades, leading behavioral scientists have offered strong criticisms of the common practice of null hypothesis significance testing as producing spurious findings without strong theoretical or empirical support. But only in the past decade has this manifested as a full-scale replication crisis. We consider some possible reasons why, on or about December 2010, the behavioral sciences changed.
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title_short Why Did It Take So Many Decades for the Behavioral Sciences to Develop a Sense of Crisis Around Methodology and Replication?
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