The conclusions of the initiative, called the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) project, have been 'eagerly awaited by many', says John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford University in California who was not involved with the programme. The scale and breadth of the project is impressive, he says, but the results are 'not surprising', because they are in line with those from smaller, earlier studies. Researchers have been investigating a 'crisis' in the reliability of scientific results for more than a decade. They've found that many scientific experiments can't be repeated ' not just in the social sciences, but also in the biomedical field. The SCORE findings ' derived from the work of 865 researchers poring over papers published in 62 journals and spanning fields including economics, education, psychology and sociology ' don't necessarily mean that science is being done poorly, says Tim Errington, head of research at the Center for Open Science, an...
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