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Replication Crisis
rep-lih-KAY-shun KRY-sis
/ˌrɛplɪˈkeɪʃən ˈkraɪsɪs/Listen
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replicationcrisis
Dictionary meaning
Ongoing methodological crisis where many scientific studies fail to reproduce — psychology's famous 'power pose' and ego depletion studies failed replication; Open Science Collaboration (2015) reproduced only 36 of 100 psychology studies; causes include publication bias (only positive results published), p-hacking, and small sample sizes
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