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Replication Crisis: Challenges reporting on social sciences

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When it comes to science journalism, there is a lot of contentious ground involved that can put off potential readers as studies are often used to generate click-bait headlines no sooner than other articles emerge that end up contradicting the previous study findings. Paired with the fact that the social and life sciences are substantially affected by the replication crisis - thus, making contradictory and unverifiable study claims a recurring theme - makes it difficult for readers to take journalistic entries on such studies seriously. However, there are a few ways to circumvent this matter without necessarily avoiding having to report on the social sciences. This entails a brief discussion of the few potential solutions when engaging in science journalism.

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A quick summary of three approaches, or combination of approaches, that one can take when writing about studies from the social and life sciences, given the greater degree of replication crisis in this field.

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A recurring theme when it comes to science journalism is the citation and referencing of studies within the social sciences paradigm and the infamous replication crisis that appears to be a recurring issue in said paradigm. Naturally, this makes writing about such work and conveying it to an audience without provoking galvanised incredulity a bit difficult. More often than we'd like to consider, covering stories based on social science research will be met with substantial dismissals from the readership due to the replicability issues associated with such research. In fact, these days, one will find a good portion of science journalism focusing on the theme of the replicability crisis in order to generate compelling content.

Needless to say, it isn't going to be an easy task reporting on such a field, ...

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