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Social science’s low replication rate is not a crisis

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26.04.2026

Let’s say you do a job that involves making predictions about human behavior — you manage money, you sell things, you write opinion columns. Just less than half of your predictions turn out to be more or less right, about 10% are completely wrong and with the rest it’s hard to say for sure. Would a success rate like that make you good at your job?

This ran through my mind as I perused........

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