Title: What is Replicable Research and Why Should You Care? | Displayr
Headings: What is Replicable Research and Why Should You Care?
What is Replicable Research and Why Should You Care?
What is Replicable Research?
Replication of a single finding
The independent group
Valid-but-different methods
Why should you care that research is replicable?
Related concepts

Content: Examples of a lack of independence include people working in the same department, people who have met socially, and situations where the original researchers have considerable influence (e.g., editors of major journals). Valid-but-different methods
There are many potential explanations for different research findings. The most desirable explanation is typically that the research result is consistent with the theory because it is correct. However, there are many other explanations for findings: fraud, flukes, technical errors, and spurious correlations. For this reason, research is typically only regarded as being replicable when the findings have been reproduced using a methodology that is, in some important sense, different to that of the original study. Where a finding is found in multiple different ways it is said to be generalizable. Why should you care that research is replicable? In order to take a scientific study or experiment seriously, the results need to be able to be proven multiple times by independent researchers. If something is proven to be true once, why should you trust that it will always be true?