The study could not be reproduced. The world of social science got a rude awakening a few years ago, when researchers concluded that many studies in this area appeared to be deeply flawed.

A team co-led by Gideon Nave of Penn's Wharton School replicated 21 high-profile social science studies and found discrepancies with the original research, including eight studies that failed to ...

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Increases in local homicide rates in U.S. counties are linked to higher suicide rates the following year, particularly when firearms are involved, according to Rutgers researchers.

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Other replication projects have found rates of between 30 and 77 percent in the social sciences. Although these studies have been very different, the results are starting to fall within a certain ...

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Dreber also cautions that the SSRP only looked at 21 studies, and can’t say much about whether prediction markets can more broadly gauge the reliability of social-science studies.