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Update from the AEA Data Editor on Replication and Reproducibility
[From the presentation slides on “Replication and Reproducibility in Social Sciences and Statistics: Context, Concerns, and Concrete Measures” by Lars Vilhuber, AEA Data Editor, presented at the 2019 Western Economics Association International meetings] NOTE: Just so there is no misunderstanding,…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Psychology Today (June 28, 2019)
[From the article “Second-Guessing Predictions: When to trust scientific predictions—and when to ignore them” by Alexander Danvers] “One of the key reforms of the Credibility Revolution in psychology research is the use of preregistration: Scientists write down what they predict will happen…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Slate (June 20, 2019)
[From the article “We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.” by Kevin Arceneaux, Bert Bakker, Claire Gothreau, and Gijs Schumacher, published in Slate] “Our story starts in 2008, when a group of researchers…
Read MoreReproducibility in Registered Reports: Lots of Room for Improvement
[From the paper, “Analysis of Open Data and Computational Reproducibility in Registered Reports in Psychology” by Pepijn Obels, Daniel Lakens, Nicholas Coles, & Jaroslav Gottfried, posted at PsyArXiv Preprints] “Recently, scholars have started to empirically examine the extent to which data…
Read MoreNot Only That, Effect Sizes from Registered Reports Are Also Much Lower
[In a recent post at TRN, we highlighted that positive results were drastically lower in registered reports. In this post, we report findings about effect sizes. Excerpts are taken from “The Meaningfulness of Effect Sizes in Psychological Research: Differences Between…
Read MorePositive Findings are Drastically Lower in Registered Reports
[From slides prepared for the talk “Positive result rates in psychology: Registered Reports compared to the conventional literature” by Mitchell Schijen, Anne Scheel, and Daniël Lakens, presented at Open Science 2019 @ZPID, Trier , and posted at OSF] Conclusion: “Positive result rate in…
Read MoreDon’t Like the Author’s Conclusion? Read the Other One.
[From the article “Reproducibility trial publishes two conclusions for one paper” by David Adam, published in Nature] “How deeply an anaesthetist should sedate an elderly person when they have surgery is a controversial issue, because some studies link stronger doses…
Read MoreAnother Economics Journal Pilots Pre-Results Review
[From the article “Pre-results review reaches the (economic) lab: Experimental Economics follows the Journal of Development Economics in piloting pre-results review”, an interview with Irenaeus Wolff, published at http://www.bitss.org. The following are excerpts from that interview.] “In its April 2019…
Read MoreExperts Are Not Know-It-Alls (Experimentally Speaking)
[From the paper “Stability of experimental results: Forecasts and evidence” by Stefano DellaVigna and Devin Pope, an NBER Working Paper] “How robust are experimental results to changes in design? And can researchers anticipate which changes matter most? We consider a…
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