Dead wrong about 66.67% of the time! That would be a “D” grade.

Minding The Campus reports.

Almost Two-thirds of Psychological Studies Are Wrong

Einstein, as everyone knows, famously defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Science is the mirror image of insanity (which is not to say there are no mad scientists). It expects — indeed, requires — the same results when scientists do the same experiments or calculations over and over. Thus, according to an important and widely noticed study just published in Science, “Estimating The Reproducibility Of Psychological Science,” there is a real question whether much of the allegedly scientific research published in learned journals of psychology actually qualifies as science.

The Reproducibility Project, coordinated by University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science, involved a team of 270 psychologists from around the world who attempted to replicate the findings of 100 articles published in 2008 selected from three leading psychology journals: Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.