The social sciences are facing a crisis: the core assumption of modern social science is that we move forward by rejecting false theories through a process of hypothesis testing. Yet after nearly a century of social science research, not one of the innumerable competing theories of social science has been decisively rejected. Worse, fewer than half of all biomedical findings have been able to be replicated -- the problem is worse in pharmeceutical research, where the vast majority of results are unreproducible. In this book, a prominent social scientist argues that physical and social...
The social sciences are facing a crisis: the core assumption of modern social science is that we move forward by rejecting false theories through a pr...