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The finding that many social science studies fail to replicate<\/a> should be an embarrassment to social scientists. I suppose any participant has an explanation. I can say after being involved in social science research for many years that there is a lot of pressure for numbers (sounds like the excuse educators used when cheating on student tests).<\/p>\n

There were many ways to play the game. My observation recognized strategies that would not necessarily result in failure to replicate., but would boost numbers For example – questionnaire studies rather than studies based in observable behaviors, multiple authorships to boost the number of lines on the vita, short duration studies. I assume the large and expanding number of journals plays to the same motivational forces.<\/p>\n

I always thought tenure was to allow an escape from this kind of pressure and a greater focus on quality. All systems seem to revert to variables that are easy to quantify.<\/p>\n

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