[NOTE: This blog is based on the article “HARKing: How Badly Can Cherry-Picking and Question Trolling Produce Bias in Published Results?” by Kevin Murphy and Herman Aguinis, recently published in the Journal of Business and Psychology.] The track record for replications in the social sciences is discouraging. There have been several recent papers documenting and commenting on the failure to replicate studies in economics and psychology (Chang & Li, 2015; Open Science Collaboration, 2015; Ortman, 2015; Pashler & Wagenmakers, 2012).