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There is one sentence about this in the article, stated without support, possibly as a joke. The rest of the article is about replication failure in social science studies.


It's in the title, and is the most important part of the quote, which had to be used for brevity, but should have kept that instead.


It's a quotation from a researcher who's being interviewed for a popular news article. Be reasonable. What do you expect?




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