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Solving the Replication Crisis: Audits Would Help
[From the article “Randomly auditing research labs could be an affordable way to improve research quality: A simulation study” by Adrian Barnett, Pauline Zardo, and Nicholas Graves, published at PLoS One] “The “publish or perish” incentive drives many researchers to increase the…
Read MoreAnyone Interested in Participating in an Economics Replication Experiment?
[From the “2018 Economics Replication Project” posted by Nick Huntington-Klein and Andy Gill of California State University, Fullerton] “In this project, we are asking recruited researchers to perform a “blind” replication of one of two studies. Without telling researchers the…
Read MoreNature Journal Says It Supports Replications. But Then There’s Revealed Preference.
[From the article, “One team’s struggle to publish a replication attempt, part 3” by Mante Nieuwland, published at Retraction Watch] “The purpose of this post was to provide a transparent, behind-the-scenes account of our replication study and what happened when…
Read MoreTo Improve Reproducibility, You Should Talk to Your…Librarian?
[From a guest blog entitled “What To Do About The Reproducibility Crisis” by Letisha Wyatt, posted at jove.com] “Late in my biomedical science graduate training, I learned that researchers often overlook the fundamental processes of adequately preparing data and all…
Read MoreWhat is a “Successful Replication?”
[From a twitter post by Gilad Feldman, @mgto_org ] “What is a successful replication? My students are I wanted to have a clear guide with examples, couldn’t find a clear straightforward article. Here’s a suggested table. Please help, what’s wrong/inaccurate or missing?…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Wall Street Journal (April 16, 2018)
[From the opinion article, “How Bad is the Government’s Science?” by Peter Wood and David Randall, published at http://www.wsj.com%5D “A deeper issue is that the irreproducibility crisis has remained largely invisible to the general public and policy makers. That’s a…
Read MoreResearchers Really Want to Share Their Data. Really?
[From the White paper, “Practical Challenges for Researchers in Data Sharing”, posted at springernature.com] “In one of the largest surveys of researchers about research data (with over 7,700 respondents), Springer Nature finds widespread data sharing associated with published works and…
Read MoreMight This Also Apply to Untenured Faculty?
[From the article “A survey on data reproducibility and the effect of publication process on the ethical reporting of laboratory research,” forthcoming in the journal Clinical Cancer Research] “We developed an anonymous online survey intended for trainees involved in bench…
Read MoreJust How Big Is the “Reproducibility Crisis”? Good Question
[From the preprint article “Researcher conduct determines data reliability” by Mark Wass, Larry Ray, and Martin Michaelis] “Our findings demonstrate the need for systematic meta-research on the issue of data reproducibility. A reproducibility crisis is widely recognised among researchers from many different fields….
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