Psychology Is Not In Crisis Summary

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After reading both New York Times – articles “Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says” by Benedict Carey and “Psychology Is Not in Crisis” by Lisa Feldman Barrett. I do not feel that scientific research is in crisis or that the 100 reran original experiments are worthless. However, I do believe that failure to replicate is a normal part of how science works. Which means to me that there is something going on, that we do not understand and this not a sign of untrustworthiness. In addition, like Barrett reported in her article that failure to replicate is true only under certain conditions. It was also stated by Dr. Schwarz a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, in Carey’s article that the reran replication studies themselves were never evaluated for errors in design or analysis. So when a study fails to be replicated, it might suggest that the current understandings of the study or such methods of testing are insufficient and not the study itself. Furthermore, I believe that all true reputable scientists aim for replication of their studies. Like in…show more content…
Writing a scientific paper requires very descriptive method and material detail such as study design procedures, particular techniques used, specialized equipment including brand names, temporal, spatial, and historical description of study area and studied population, description of the specific activity and statistical methods including software programs all have to be carefully recorded in order to be replicated. Another reason a study might fail could be if there are modifications done of any the techniques that the researchers left out of the method detail. In addition, it is very helpful if the method section illustrates in a chronologically order, to describe each procedure in the order it was
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