> * According to several experts, there is no reason to think the problems are confined to psychology, and it could be worse in other fields. The researchers chose psychology merely because that is their field of expertise.
There's a tendency to stop collecting data once there are publishable findings. There's also a tendency to ignore (find reason to discount) results that aren't reproducible or don't make sense. That's even the case in physics. There's a tendency to debug until you get results that are consistent with prior work.
> There's also a tendency to ignore (find reason to discount) results that aren't reproducible or don't make sense. ... There's a tendency to debug until you get results that are consistent with prior work.
Even Einstein (Einstein, of all people) when his findings suggested a Big Bang, adjusted them so that they would fit in the then-believed-to-be-true static universe model. He called it his greatest mistake. Confirmation bias.
There's a tendency to stop collecting data once there are publishable findings. There's also a tendency to ignore (find reason to discount) results that aren't reproducible or don't make sense. That's even the case in physics. There's a tendency to debug until you get results that are consistent with prior work.