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The Problem Isn’t Bad Incentives, It’s the Ritual Behind Them
[From the article, “Statistical Rituals: The Replication Delusion and How We Got There” by Gerd Gigerenzer, published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science] “The “replication crisis” has been attributed to misguided external incentives gamed by researchers (the…
Read MoreWhat If There Isn’t a Single Effect Size? Implications for Power Calculations, Hypothesis Testing, Confidence Intervals and Replications
[From the working paper “The Unappreciated Heterogeneity of Effect Sizes:Implications for Power, Precision, Planning of Research, and Replication” by David Kenny and Charles Judd, posted at Open Science Framework (OSF)] “The goal of this article is to examine the implications…
Read MoreSearching for Specification Searching in Development Impact Evaluations
[From the paper “Specification Searching and Significance Inflation AcrossTime, Methods and Disciplines” by Eva Vivalt, published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics] “…This paper leverages a database of impact evaluation results collected by AidGrade, a US non-profit organization that…
Read MoreA Course Syllabus in Social Science Replication
[From the syllabus for “POLI 229: Social Science Replication”, taught by Gareth Nellis at the University of California San Diego] “The purpose of this class is to learn how to do cutting-edge empirical research in the social sciences by replicating…
Read MoreHow to Win Friends (or at Least Not Maximize Enemies) and Influence People When Doing Replications
[From the paper “Good and Bad Replications in Political Science: How Replicators and Original Authors (Should) Talk to Each Other” by Nicole Janz and Jeremy Freese, prepared for presentation at the MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019] “We propose two main…
Read MoreChoosing the Right α: What You Need to Know
[From the article “The quest for an optimal alpha” by Jeff Miller and Rolf Ulrich, published in PLOS One] “The purpose of the present article is to show exactly what is necessary to provide a principled justification for a particular α…
Read MoreAn Interesting Thread on Pre-registration
The Psychonomic Society has been hosting an interesting blog series on pre-registration. Below are the five blogs with ridiculously brief, and probably misleading, summaries: Stephen Lindsay (“Arguments for Preregistering Psychology Research”) SUMMARY: Proper interpretation of the results from hypothesis testing…
Read MoreThis is Literally a Big Deal
[From the article “Groundbreaking deal makes large number of German studies free to public” by Kai Kupferschmidt, published in Science] “Three years ago, a group of German libraries, universities, and research institutes teamed up to force the three largest scientific…
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