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On todays Modern Notion Daily podcast, our guest is Roger Giner-Sorolla, a professor of social psychology at the University of Kent and a member of the team working on the Reproducibility Project for Psychology. The Reproducibility Project tasked psychologists with choosing 100 studies that they could replicate in their own labs as a way of examining the state of psychology research on the whole. Only 36 percent were successfully replicated—but what does that figure really mean?
Music this hour:
“get out” by Jahzzar, from the album Sketches
“Soldiertype (militarised)” by Ketsa, from the album What’s Without’s Within
“Forgiven Not Forgotten” by Jahzzar, from the album Kuddelmuddel
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