Initial reports in the media that listening to classical music made students more intelligent were followed by several failed attempts to reproduce the effects in the laboratories of other researchers. This is an example of the failure to
A)accurately communicate.
B)achieve parsimony.
C)correlate.
D)replicate.

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The failure to reproduce the effects in other laboratories suggests that the initial results were not replicable, indicating a failure to replicate.

Initial Reports in the Media That Listening to Classical Music