Concern has been growing in the past decade about published scientific claims that other laboratories can’t successfully replicate. Some of these studies are pretty silly – for example, the claim that women’s political preferences change by 20 percentage points depending on the time of the month. Others were potentially useful but didn’t work out, like the one which says that holding your body in a “power pose” gives you a hormonal boost. Read the full article in Guardian.
Professor Gelman is giving the keynote lecture at the ESRC Research Methods Festival