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not science until it can be reproduced. and since this is a psychological study...


By that logic, for example, math and some quantum physics are not science. This distinction is useless.


Not all branches of psychology are the same. Social psychology is generally pretty rigorous. For example you can calculate the average attitude and this will be consistently reproducible, assuming your methodology isn't too flawed.

Of course there was a particularly public reproduction crisis, but the problem is endemic to academia as a whole, if perhaps in lower numbers (this remains to be seen).


Edited, thanks.




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