The outcome of this study is that only about half of claimed positive results in such areas as psychology, economics and education were found to be reproducible. The only thing that surpises me about the result is that it is as high as 50%. And before you get snarky about "soft sciences", there is a similar phenomenon in physics and astronomy too. The Nobel prize-winning physicist John Bahcall famously said that, based on his experience, “about half of all 3σ detections are false”.
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