那些身处有关社会福祉工作岗位的人,其实际形象往往与理想形象相差甚远。政府官员应为他们的选民服务。记者应进行不偏不倚的报道和鞭辟入里的分析。科学家则应以最严谨质疑的方法坚持不懈地探索实际的架构。然而,实际情况往往并非如此。在一些科学领域,公开发表的研究成果最终都不可复制,或者说效果要比最初认为的小。很多科学研究确实可以复制——即重新实验能获得相同的结果——但不可复制的情况已多到不能等闲视之的地步。 Those who live in jobs related to social well-being often differ far from their ideal image. Government officials should serve their constituents. Journalists should conduct impartial reports and whip into the analysis. Scientists should persevere in exploring the actual architecture in the most rigorous and questioning ways. However, the reality is often not the case. In some areas of science, the results of published research are ultimately not replicable, or less effective than originally thought. Many scientific studies can indeed replicate - that is, re-experiment to get the same result - but the situation can not be copied more than can not be ignored.