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Only if you're a frequentist. A Bayesian would see evidence that studies in general fail to replicate, and thus have a better prior for famous ones than 50:50.



As an aside, such lines of argument regarding credence are not in any way incompatible with frequentism. Few frequentists deny the correctness of Bayes’ theorem.




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