Replication & (Law &) Psychology

While the current (or, candidly, any) replication crisis should give all empirical scholars pause, much of the attention (rightly or wrongly) focuses on psychology (and, by implication in the ELS world, law & psychology). While what explains the current focus on psychology is not entirely clear, in a blog post (here) Andrew Gelman (Columbia--statistics) offers a few reasons. One quick take-away, however, is that at least some of Gelman's reasons are neither necessarily nor structurally limited to psychology. Moreover, the first sentence in Gelman's post underscores another important point: The replication crisis is a "big deal" and one that warrants careful and sustained attention.