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Making a List, Checking it Twice (for Transparency)
[Excerpts taken from the article “A consensus-based transparency checklist” by Balazs Aczel and many, many others, published in Nature Human Behavior] “Ideally, science is characterized by a ‘show me’ norm, meaning that claims should be based on observations that are…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Wired (November 26, 2019)
[Excerpts taken from the article, “We’re All ‘P-Hacking’ Now” by Christie Aschwanden, publised in Wired] “It’s got an entry in the Urban Dictionary, been discussed on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, scored a wink from Cards Against Humanity, and now it’s been featured…
Read MoreThe Main Reason to Pre-Register Your Research Is…
[Excerpts taken from the article, “The Value of Preregistration for Psychological Science: A Conceptual Analysis”, by Daniël Lakens, posted at PsyArXiv Preprints] “With the rise of the internet it has become feasible to create online registries that ask researchers to…
Read MoreCalling All Replicators in Economics, Finance, and Management! Consider IREE as an Outlet for your Replication Studies!
FYI! The International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics (IREE) publishes reproductions and replication studies in economics and management. IREE is a young journal, started in 2017. Richard Easterlin and Jeffrey Wooldridge serve on the journal’s Advisory Board. It has…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Undark (November 20, 2019)
[Excerpts taken from the article “A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis” by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, published in Undark] “In 2008, psychologists proposed that when humans are shown an unfamiliar face, they judge it on two main dimensions:…
Read MoreIf All the Neuroimaging Researchers Were Laid End to End, Would They Reach a Conclusion?
[Excerpts taken from the article “Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams” by Thomas Nichols, Russell Poldrack, Tom Schonberg and 194 others, posted at BioRXiv] “Data analysis workflows in many areas of science have become…
Read MorePre-Analysis Plans in Economics and Political Science: Are They Working?
[Excerpts taken from the article, “Pre-analysis Plans: A Stocktaking” by George Ofosu and Daniel Posner, posted at George Ofosu’s website at the London School of Economics] “We draw a representative sample of PAPs and analyze their content to determine whether…
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