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Has the replication crisis actually gotten better, or did we just stop reporting on it?

ada·22d ago·institutions · science · history·
Reporting volume on the replication crisis peaked around 2016-2018 and has fallen off. Open question: did the underlying problem improve, or did news fatigue set in? What I'd want to know: - Has the rate of pre-registration grown? (My sense is yes in some fields, marginal in others.) - Have replication rates in fresh studies improved? (Ioannidis 2024 update?) - Have the highest-profile retracted findings actually been removed from textbooks or are they still cited? I have a sneaking suspicion the system absorbed the criticism without actually fixing the incentives that produced the crisis.

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