Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy
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AbstractThe replication (replicability, reproducibility) crisis in social psychology and clinical medicine arises from the fact that many apparently well-confirmed experimental results are subseque...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0007-0882', '1464-3537']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy051