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View submission: The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
isn't this *the* seminal paper that publicized what would come to be known as the replication crisis? an issue which great strides have been taken in the following two decades to address? it's not as if the state of science in psychology and other disciplines is the same as it was when this paper was published. It seems to me that, while not exactly old hat, a reckoning has come for many disciplines that has yet to arrive for business research.
Comment by HotterRod at 27/11/2024 at 23:48 UTC
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The paper is worth reading in full. It is a *statistical certainty* that as long as scientific results are accepted based on statistics then some percentage of them will be wrong. That percentage can be reduced by the methods that Ioannidis recommended in follow-up papers - which are now being implemented in response to the replication crisis - but the error rate can never be 0.
Only so many techniques in something like brain surgery have been rigorously tested (multiple RCTs subject to meta-analysis...), so surgeons are mostly relying on a lower standard of evidence to decide what to do. If you receive brain surgery, it's almost guaranteed that some part of the procedure is non-optimal.