Contextualizebeta

replication crisis

noun

Etymology

Coined in the early 2010s with growing awareness of the problem.

Definitions

  1. A crisis caused by the problem that many scientific studies are difficult or impossible…

    A crisis caused by the problem that many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce, casting doubt on the meaningfulness of their results in light of the requirements of the scientific method.

    • It is not just the social sciences that are in the grip of replication crises.
    • One simple (albeit partial) solution to the “replication crisis” is to conduct studies that use samples large enough to produce good estimates of the associations of interest.

  2. All replication crises, in all scientific fields or specialties, viewed collectively as a…

    All replication crises, in all scientific fields or specialties, viewed collectively as a unitary, single epistemic crisis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for replication crisis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA