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SIMCHI-LEVI: Behavioral Science’s Credibility Is At Risk. Replication Studies Can Help
NOTE: This blog is a repost of one originally published at the Informs blogsite (click here). We thank David Simchi-Levi for permission to repost. Several scientific disciplines have been conducting replication initiatives to investigate the reliability of published research results….
Read MoreAoI*: “High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable” by Protzko et al. (2023)
[*AoI = “Articles of Interest” is a feature of TRN where we report abstracts of recent research related to replication and research integrity.] ABSTRACT (taken from the article) “Failures to replicate evidence of new discoveries have forced scientists to ask…
Read MoreAoI*: “The Significance of Data-Sharing Policy” by Azkarov et al. (2023)
[*AoI = “Articles of Interest” is a feature of TRN where we report abstracts of recent research related to replication and research integrity.] ABSTRACT (taken from the article) “We assess the impact of mandating data-sharing in economics journals on two…
Read MoreVON HIPPEL: When Does Science Self-Correct? Lessons from a Replication Crisis in Early 20th Century Chemistry
NOTE: This blog is a repost of one originally published at The Good Science Project (click here) Science is self-correcting—or so we are told. But in truth it can be very hard to expunge errors from the scientific record. In…
Read MoreREED: More on Self-Correcting Science and Replications: A Critical Review
NOTE: This is a another long blog. Sorry about that! TL;DR: I provide a common framework for evaluating 5 recent papers and critically compare them. All of the papers have shortcomings. I argue that the view that the psychology papers represent…
Read MoreREED: Is Science Self-Correcting? Evidence from 5 Recent Papers on the Effect of Replications on Citations
NOTE: This is a long blog. TL;DR: I discuss 5 papers and the identification strategies each use in their effort to identify a causal effect of replications on citations. One of the defining features of science is its ability to…
Read MoreHIRSCHAUER, GRÜNER, & MUßHOFF: Fundamentals of Statistical Inference: What is the Meaning of Random Error?
This blog is based on the book of the same name by Norbert Hirschauer, Sven Grüner, and Oliver Mußhoff that was published in SpringerBriefs in Applied Statistics and Econometrics in August 2022. Starting from the premise that a lacking understanding…
Read MoreREED & WU: EiR* – Missing Data
[* EiR = Econometrics in Replications, a feature of TRN that highlights useful econometrics procedures for re-analysing existing research.] NOTE: This blog uses Stata for its estimation. All the data and code necessary to reproduce the results in the tables…
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