{"id":42479,"date":"2015-09-01T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42479"},"modified":"2015-09-01T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:42:00","slug":"psychologists-welcome-analysis-casting-doubt-on-their-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42479","title":{"rendered":"Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/29\/science\/psychologists-welcome-analysis-casting-doubt-on-their-work.html\" target=\"_blank\">Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bencareynyt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Benedict Carey<\/strong><\/a>, Science Reporter<\/p>\n<p>The field of psychology sustained a damaging blow Thursday: A new analysis found that only 36 percent of findings from almost 100 studies in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42425\" target=\"_blank\">top three psychology<\/a> journals held up when the original experiments were rigorously redone.<\/p>\n<p>After the report was <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aac4716\" target=\"_blank\">published by the journal <em>Science<\/em><\/a>, commenters on Facebook wisecracked about how \u201csocial\u201d and \u201cscience\u201d did not belong in the same sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Yet within the field, the reception was much different. Along with pockets of disgruntlement and outrage \u2014 no one likes the tired jokes, not to mention having doubt cast on their work \u2014 there was a sense of relief. One reason, many psychologists said, is that the authors of the new report were fellow researchers, not critics. It was an inside job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like we\u2019ve come clean,\u201d said Alan Kraut, the executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Association for Psychological Science<\/a>, which publishes one of the journals analyzed in the new report. \u201cThis kind of correction is something that has to happen across science, and I\u2019m proud that psychology is leading the charge on this.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/29\/science\/psychologists-welcome-analysis-casting-doubt-on-their-work.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work The New York Times 2015-08-29 Benedict Carey, Science Reporter The field of psychology sustained a damaging blow Thursday: A new analysis found that only 36 percent of findings from almost 100 studies in the top three psychology journals held up when the original experiments were rigorously redone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,20],"tags":[20876,20848,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-42479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alan-kraut","tag-benedict-carey","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42480,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42479\/revisions\/42480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}