I think replication crisis is a key to understanding the issues Psychology has as a discipline that wants to be taken as seriously as natural sciences. It’s not that findings are wrong, it’s that one minor change or adjustment to the experiment will yield a completely different picture
It’s like Economics, without the modelling systems. In economics you have to define things like you do in psychology but you are limited to the realm of semantics and interpretation
Same issue with Philosophy
Things like material science or the natural sciences rather, you’re literally bound by a tangible object you can decipher with higher degrees of definition. Whereas the non natural sciences - what can you compare the experiment to other than your own views - thereby not being able to replicate becuase literally - no two people are identical whereas natural materials are
(Edit - this is not mean to discredit psychology and social sciences, it’s meant to compare it to other disciplines. Quite to the contrary, I like psychology, I even chose to study it in school)
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