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Are Badges the New Normal?
[From the blog “Psychology’s New Normal” by Stephen Lindsay, posted at the Center for Open Science’s website] “As one means of encouraging these transparent science practices, the Center for Open Science developed the idea of awarding badges to articles that met…
Read MoreOh No! Not Zebra Finches Too!
[From the article, “Replication Failures Highlight Biases in Ecology and Evolution Science” by Yao-Hua Law, published at http://www.the-scientist.com%5D “As robust efforts fail to reproduce findings of influential zebra finch studies from the 1980s, scientists discuss ways to reduce bias in such…
Read MoreMaking Replications Mainstream: It Takes a Research Community
Just in case you missed it, the latest issue of Behavioral and Brain Sciences includes an article by Rolf Zwaan, Alexander Etz, Richard Lucas, and Brent Donnellan entitled “Making Replications Mainstream”. It is something of a tour-de-force by four prominent…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Science (July 31, 2018)
[From the article, “Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18” by Jocelyn Kaiser, published in Science magazine] “An ambitious project that set out nearly 5 years ago to replicate experiments from 50 high-impact cancer biology papers, but gradually shrank…
Read MoreHow to Get Something from Nothing. Or, “Yes, Virginia, You Can Do Ex-post Power Analyses”.
[From the article, “The effect of the conservation reserve program on rural economies: Deriving a statistical verdict from a null finding” by Jason Brown, Dayton Lambert, and Timothy Wojan, recently published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics] “This article suggests…
Read MoreThe Truth is Out There. It’s Just Not Very Likely.
[From the paper, “Perceived Crisis and Reforms: Issues, Explanations, and Remedies”, authored by Paul De Boeck and Minjeong Jeon, published in the July issue of Psychological Bulletin] “…we believe that the OSC [Open Science Collaboration] study allows us to obtain…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: NY Times (July 16, 2018)
[From the article “Psychology Itself Is Under Scrutiny” by Benedict Carey, published in the NY Times] “The urge to pull down statues extends well beyond the public squares of nations in turmoil. Lately it has been stirring the air in…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Guardian (July 11, 2018)
[From the article, “MPs want new watchdog to root out research misconduct ” by Ian Sample, published at www.theguardian.com] “A national watchdog that has the power to punish British universities for failing to tackle research misconduct is needed to ensure that…
Read MoreReplication and Transparency in Political Science: An Update
[From the blog, “Replication and transparency in political science – did we make any progress? “by Nicole Janz, published at Political Science Replication] “When a range of top political science journals signed a statement to enforce transparency in 2014 (JETS statement), there…
Read More“Cargo-Cult” Statistics. What Can Statisticians Do?
[From the blog “Cargo-cult statistics and scientific crisis” by Philip Stark and Andrea Saltelli, published by Significance magazine] “Poor practice is catching up with science, manifesting in part in the failure of results to be reproducible and replicable. Various causes have been posited, but…
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