The Scientific Method: Process and Practical Applications
The scientific method is a structured approach for testing ideas using evidence and analysis.
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Open Science Collaboration (2015) reproducibility figure is 36%, not 39%
Before[FAQ JSON-LD field] A landmark 2015 project by the Open Science Collaboration attempted to replicate 100 psychology studies and found only 39% produced the same results.
After[FAQ JSON-LD field] A landmark 2015 project by the Open Science Collaboration attempted to replicate 100 psychology studies and found only 36% produced the same results.
Why: Body text and references already correctly said 36% from the prior session, but the invisible FAQ JSON-LD field (read by search engines/AI crawlers) still had the stale unverified 39% figure in its 'What is the replication crisis?' answer. Decoded the faq field (base64->json->base64->json op sequence), corrected the figure, and re-encoded using the exact reverse sequence.
Verified post-PUT that the FAQ field still resolves to a valid 5-item array with the fix present.
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