The controversy that surrounded psychology after a massive replication attempt indicated that less than half of all psychology studies were replicable is often referred to by scientific journalists as the replication

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- The controversy that surrounded psychology after a massive replication attempt indicated that less than half of all psychology studies were replicable is often referred to by scientific journalists as the replication crisis.

Explanation:

in 2015, the magazine Science published a study where more than 270 investigators and scientist tried replicating 100 relevant scientific articles in the psychology area, the results show that less than 39% of the studies could be replicated, this case was named by the journalists "the replication crisis" and show the variability of the psychologist studies.

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