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.

It was. Of 21 social and behavioral science papers in Science and Nature that met the study criteria between 2010 and 2015, the replicators found that just 13 had a statistically significant ...

The limitations of social science are crucial to understand, but such limits are often underexpressed in coverage. So when faced with a seemingly explosive research finding, especially about a moral ...

Interdisciplinary take will differentiate lasting innovation from tech novelty, writes the director of the Knowledge Lab and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The past few years have raised some hard questions about the science of well-being. How culturally biased is our conception of happiness? How much do social forces (or genetics) shape happiness, ...

Social science studies can be highly sensitive to small changes in their model and sample. See Steven N. Durlaf, et al., Model Uncertainty and the Effect of Shall-Issue Right-to-Carry Laws on ...

As with proposals for medical research, I.R.B.'s rarely reject social-science studies outright. Instead, researchers are increasingly voicing complaints that review boards are proposing cumbersome ...

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.

For social scientists, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has been a gold mine, allowing rapid data collection for thousands of social science studies. This past summer, this gold mine seemed to ...