Scott E. Maxwell, Michael Y. Lau, and George S. Howard argue that multiple replications, rather than a single replication study, may be required to obtain sufficient statistical power to identify true psychological effects.
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- Is psychology suffering from a replication crisis? What does ... (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Is-psychology-suffering-from-a-replication-crisis-Maxwell-Lau/44568dcd125eb2bd279290ded2cdedae0f089f47 (semanticscholar.org)
- https://forrt.org/curated_resources/is-psychology-suffering-from-a-replicati/ (forrt.org)
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