Observing Many Researchers Using Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals

I always found science not difficult. I underestimated the difficulties.

>> We coordinated 161 researchers in 73 research teams and observed their research decisions as they used the same data to independently test the same prominent social science hypothesis

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In this typical case of research based on secondary data, we find that research teams reported widely diverging numerical findings and substantive conclusions despite identical start conditions.