The Reproducibility Project Essay

While, scientists are depicted as cold, analytical beings there are still human. Being human is not being perfect. Even they come in with a certain amount of bias when conducting research. Optimistically, they are the experts and masters of their fields, but we should never fully trust in scientific theories to be fact. Over the past hundred years, we have come to know that many studies that were seen as reputable and unwavering are now debunked. With this realization in mind going forward consumers of scientific studies should be wary of being initially accepting of theories.
Keeping in mind that reputable institutes screen their scientists and hold them to high scrutiny, we should not be blind to corruption human nature inevitably ensues. The struggle for notoriety and fundings is big obstacles in the scientific community. Scientists can be persuaded to alter data to create false findings to seem like their work is making strides in their field. In …show more content…
The project aims to reproduce studies that have shaped our culture to assure accuracy and validity. They have found many studies to be unreproducible. Meaning that the initial studies' findings were wrong. One example is the "power pose" after attempting to reproduce this study no significant findings were found. This theory of posing to make yourself more confident has been taught and practice to many lay people. After the study was debunked to undo the popularity of theory the Reproducibility Project shamed the psychologist who came up with the theory. Although they did a sufficient job of ruining her reputation, the theory is still believed by many even after being told it there were no sufficient findings to back the idea. This is where the danger of taking the scientific theory as fact. Those who did not question the validity of the studies conducted that lead to this theory is not unable to accept the