Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Low replicability can support robust and efficient science

  • Stephan Lewandowsky,
  • Klaus Oberauer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14203-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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There has been much concern about the “replication crisis” in psychology and other disciplines. Here the authors show that an efficient solution to the crisis would not insist on replication before publication, and would instead encourage publication before replication, with the findings marked as preliminary.