Consider psychology. The field has been recently embarrassed by failed attempts to repeat the results of classic textbook experiments, and a mounting realization that many papers are the result of commonly accepted statistical shenanigans rather than careful attempts to test hypotheses. Tellingly, as I covered in August, a coordinated attempt to repeat 100 published experiments, led by Brian Nosek from the University of Virginia, managed to reproduce the results of just a third of them. Which raises the question: Exactly how good are psychologists at working out whether their own studies are r...