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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…
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