How statistical challenges and misreadings of the literature combine to produce unreplicable science: An example from psychology

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<p>Given the well-known problems of replicability, how is it that researchers at respected institutions continue to publish and publicize studies that are fatally flawed in the sense of not providing evidence to support their strong claims? We argue that two general problems are: (a) difficulties of analyzing data with multilevel structure and (b) misinterpretation of the literature. We demonstrate with the exampl...

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6ac9ddc4-7ba3-56a5-9a22-e5ac2afa2c0f

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10.31234/osf.io/ekmdf