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Reproducibility Project: Psychology

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The Reproducibility Project: Psychology was a large-scale 2015 initiative, organized by the Open Science Collaboration and the Center for Open Science, that attempted to replicate 100 psychology studies originally published in three major journals, becoming the signature empirical demonstration of psychology's replication crisis.

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Among the studies that did replicate successfully, the replicated effect sizes averaged about half the magnitude of the original studies' effect sizes. 1
Key Finding
Of 97 original studies with a statistically significant result, only 36 percent produced a significant result on replication, and the replicated effect sizes averaged about half the magnitude of the original findings. 1
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2015 1
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1. Wikipedia: Replication crisis
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The Reproducibility Project: Psychology found that "Of 97 original studies with significant effects, 36% replicated successfully"
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1. Wikipedia: Replication crisis
WikipediaIn Branch: Quantitative Psychology, Reproducibility Project scope section
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Coordinated by psychologist Brian Nosek, researchers redid 100 studies in psychological science from three high-ranking psychology journals
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