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Balazs Aczel

Balazs Aczel

Professor, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest

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Largest-ever reproducibility test finds half of social science claims don't replicate

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Led the SCORE analytical robustness study

For decades, social science findings shaped everything from classroom teaching methods to criminal sentencing guidelines—yet no one had systematically checked whether those findings held up. A seven-year project involving 865 researchers, nearly 3,900 papers, and 62 journals across 11 disciplines found that about 55% of published claims successfully replicate and 54% of studies are precisely computationally reproducible.

Updated May 30