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IN THE NEWS: Bloomberg (September 18, 2018)
[From the article “Why Economics Is Having a Replication Crisis” by Noah Smith, published at http://www.bloomberg.com%5D “By now, most people have heard of the replication crisis in psychology. When researchers try to recreate the experiments that led to published findings, only slightly more…
Read MoreALL INVITED: Workshop on Reproducibility and Integrity in Scientific Research
DATE: Friday 26 October. PLACE: University of Canterbury, Business School, Meremere, Room 236, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND REGISTRATION (important for catering purposes): email to tom.coupe@canterbury.ac.nz COST: Nada ($0) Supported by the University of Canterbury Business School Research Committee. OVERVIEW: There is more…
Read MoreHow do Psychologists Interpret Nonsignificant Results? Evidence from the Journals
[From the abstract to the article, “Quantifying Support for the Null Hypothesis in Psychology: An Empirical Investigation” by Aczel et al., recently published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science] “In the traditional statistical framework, nonsignificant results leave researchers…
Read MoreAnd How Are Things Going In Political Science?
[From the working paper “Why Too Many Political Science Findings Cannot be Trusted and What We Can Do About It” by Alexander Wuttke, posted at SocArXiv Papers] “…this article reviewed the meta-scientific evidence with a focus on the quantitative political science…
Read MoreDon’t Think of Them as Students. Think of Them As Potential Pre-Registration Replicators.
[From the Research page of Gilad Feldman’s website.] “In 2016, following recent developments in psychological science (the so called “replication crisis”) and gaining my academic independence, I decided to make serious changes to my research agenda to prioritize pre-registered replications…
Read MorePhilosophy of Science Meets the Statistics Wars
[From the Cambridge University Press website promoting Deborah Mayo’s new book, Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars] “Mounting failures of replication in social and biological sciences give a new urgency to critically appraising proposed reforms. This book pulls…
Read MoreSignificant Effects From Low-Powered Studies Will Be Overestimates
[From the article, “The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability” by Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena Jäger, and Andrew Gelman, published in the Journal of Memory and Language] Highlights: “When low-powered studies show significant effects, these will…
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