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Experts 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…
Read MorePre-Registration As a Self-Control Mechanism
[From the blog “Registering studies when all you want is a little more credibility” by Berk Ozler, posted at World Bank Blogs] “Some time ago, colleagues from World Bank (WB) operations contacted me with a request to evaluate an upcoming…
Read MorePre-Registration: The Doctor is Still Out
[From the article “A solution to psychology’s reproducibility problem just failed its first test” by David Adam, published at http://www.sciencemag.org] “Efforts to improve the robustness of research by asking psychologists to state their methods and goals ahead of time, a process…
Read MoreHow Could This Happen?
[From the article “A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers” by Ed Yong, published in The Atlantic] “In 1996, a group of European researchers found that a certain gene, called SLC6A4, might influence a person’s risk of depression. It was a blockbuster discovery at…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Vox (May 17, 2019)
[From the article “This economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal: Here’s how that might save science” by Kelsey Piper, published in Vox] “Most new publications, upon their launch, seek to promote their content as novel, surprising,…
Read MoreControl Variables Don’t Have to Have the Right Signs
[From the blog “Don’t Put Too Much Meaning Into Control Variables” by Paul Hünermund, posted at his website, p-hunermund.com] “It’s commonplace in regression analyses to not only interpret the effect of the regressor of interest, D, on an outcome variable, Y, but also…
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