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SCHÖNBRODT: Learn to p-Hack Like the Pros!
(NOTE: This ironic blog post was originally published on http://www.nicebread.de/introducing-p-hacker/) My Dear Fellow Scientists! “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” This aphorism, attributed to Ronald Coase, sometimes has been used in a dis-respective manner, as if…
Read MoreKRAWCZYK: Good News/Bad News on Who Gets the Data
Providing access to the data is a prerequisite for replication of empirical analysis. Unfortunately, this access is not always granted to everyone (see here, and here). There is evidence that some of this may be due to concerns about requestors’…
Read MoreKARABAG & BERGGREN: Misconduct and Marginality in Management, Business, and Economics Journals
The problems of publication misconduct – manipulation, fabrication and plagiarism – and other dodgy practices such as salami-style publications are attracting increasing attention. In the newly published paper “Misconduct, Marginality, and Editorial Practices in Management, Business, and Economics” (full text…
Read MoreFINDLEY, JENSEN, MALESKY, & PEPINSKY: Nothing Up with Acai Berries: Some Reflections On Null Results from a Results-Free Peer Review Process
In the academy and well beyond, the problem of null results has become quite significant. Indeed, discussions of null results have made their way as far as TV commentator John Oliver’s recent discussion of science in which he poignantly notes…
Read MoreMAREN DUVENDACK: What are Registered Replication Reports?
Academia has been abuzz in recent years with new initiatives focusing on research transparency, replication and reproducibility of research. Notable in this regard are the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, and the Reproducibility Initiative which PLOS and…
Read MoreLAMPACH & MORAWETZ: A Primer on How to Replicate Propensity Score Matching Studies
Propensity Score Matching (PSM) approaches have become increasingly popular in empirical economics. These methods are intuitively appealing. PSM procedures are available in well-known software packages such as R or Stata. The fundamental idea behind PSM is that treated observations are…
Read MoreBOB REED: Replications and Peer Review
“Weekend Reads”, the weekly summary by IVAN ORANSKY of Retraction Watch, recently listed two articles on Peer Review. One, a blog by George Borjas, concerns the recent imbroglio at the American Economic Review involving an editor who oversaw the review of…
Read MoreBOB REED: The Problem With Open Data: Would Requiring Co-Authorship Help?
There has been a huge amount of attention focused on “open data.” A casual reading of the blogosphere is that Open Data is good, Secret Data is bad. Remarkably, there has been very little discussion given to the property right…
Read MoreBOB REED: On Andrew Gelman, Retractions, and the Supply and Demand for Data Transparency
In a recent interview on Retraction Watch, Andrew Gelman reveals that what keeps him up at night isn’t scientific fraud, it’s “the sheer number of unreliable studies — uncorrected, unretracted — that have littered the literature.” He then goes on…
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