Tweet stream on the replication crisis in the social sciences

It begins:

Over the past year I have skimmed through more than 2500 social science papers. I wrote a giant post about everything that's wrong with them and how to fix the process that generates them: https://t.co/sWASWYlmls

Some highlights below.

— Alvaro de Menard (@AlvaroDeMenard) September 11, 2020

Case in point: citations are completely unrelated to whether a paper replicates or not. In a sample of 250 Replication Markets papers, the correlation between citations per year and replication probability was -0.05. Scientific impact is completely unrelated to truth.

— Alvaro de Menard (@AlvaroDeMenard) September 11, 2020

I add my own 2 cents:

"EvoPsych seems to have absorbed the worst tendencies of social psych."

Of course, as so much of it, unfortunately, has been ideologically driven, and by 'ideology' I don't mean only or even primarily by conventional politics. https://t.co/G7nDEDe0ou

— Bill Benzon (@bbenzon) September 13, 2020

That means either the NSF/NIH or even Congress. But the grant agencies seem completely clueless. I do find @GarettJones arguments on the efficacy of independent agencies convincing though, so perhaps not all hope is lost.

— Alvaro de Menard (@AlvaroDeMenard) September 11, 2020