replication crisis

plural replication crises

1. A crisis caused by the problem that many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce, casting doubt on the meaningfulness of their results in light of the requirements of the scientific method.

   AI is wrestling with a replication crisis.

   2020 November 12, Will Douglas Heaven, “AI is wrestling with a replication crisis”, in MIT Technology Review, retrieved 02 Sep 2021

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   It is not just the social sciences that are in the grip of replication crises.

   2015 November 2, Andreas Ortmann, “The replication crisis has engulfed economics”, in The Conversation, retrieved 02 Sep 2021

   In any crisis, there are the people who ask 'Crisis? What crisis?' Psychology's replication crisis is no exception. Almost as soon as the Open Science Collaboration published the results of its reproducibility project, there were critics who complained that the work itself was an example of spurious research in psychology.

   2018, Brian M. Hughes, Psychology in Crisis, page 24

   One simple (albeit partial) solution to the “replication crisis” is to conduct studies that use samples large enough to produce good estimates of the associations of interest.

   2019, Ross D. Parke, Glenn I. Roisman, Amanda J. Rose, Social Development, page 59

   They argue that the larger part of the replication crisis is the lack of a cumulative theoretical framework: […]

   2020, Vincenzo F. DiNicola, Drozdstoj Stoyanov, Psychiatry in Crisis, page 141

1. All replication crises, in all scientific fields or specialties, viewed collectively as a unitary, single epistemic crisis.

   Even Arturo Casadevall, an American microbiologist who has published extensively on the rate, distribution, and detection of fraud in science, told me that despite his personal interest in the topic, my time would be better served investigating the broader issues driving the replication crisis.

   2017 February 1, Stephen Buranyi, “The high-tech war on science fraud”, in The Guardian