#3117: Replication Crisis

XKCD comic, described below.
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[Megan, Ponytail, and Cueball are standing at a lectern. Ponytail is talking into the microphone.]

Ponytail: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn't be reproduced.

[Ponytail turns slightly to look around the room.]

Ponytail: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today's studies have become more robust.

Ponytail: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did.

[This panel shows a newspaper, with title "NEWS" surrounded by flourishes. There is a photo of the three researches at the lectern taking up about half the front page. The headline reads: "REPLICATION CRISIS SOLVED".]


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Maybe encouraging the publication of null results isn't enough--maybe we need a journal devoted to publishing results the study authors find personally annoying.


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