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Pre-Registration? Meet Publication Bias
[From the blog post, “What Is Preregistration For?” by Neuroskeptic, published at Discover Magazine] “The paper reports on five studies which all address the same general question. Of these, Study #3 was preregistered and the authors write that it was performed after…
Read MoreNot So Sure Anymore About that Paper You Published? Maybe the Loss of Confidence Project Is For You.
[From the blog post, “Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That.” by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, published at Undark] “IN SEPTEMBER 2016, the psychologist Dana Carney came forward with a confession: She no longer believed the findings of…
Read MoreScience Can Get Us Out of the Reproducibility Crisis (But How?)
[From the blog post, “Can We Science Our Way out of the Reproducibility Crisis?” by Hilda Bastian at PLOS Blogs] “Many studies are so thin on details, they’re unverifiable, unusable, or both. Many are too small, badly designed, or otherwise…
Read MoreDoes the Conclusion of Your Empirical Paper Have This?
It is common for authors of empirical studies to use the conclusion of their paper to summarize their empirical findings, without explicitly discussing why their results might differ from previous studies, nor suggesting ways to resolve observed discrepancies. In a…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Wall Street Journal (June 19, 2018)
[From the opinion article, “Undergrads Can Improve Psychology” by Russell Warne and Jordan Wagge, published at http://www.wsj.com%5D “A lot of what we think we know about human psychology is bunk. That’s because experimental psychology has a “replication crisis”: Too many…
Read MoreSolving the Replication Crisis: Audits Would Help
[From the article “Randomly auditing research labs could be an affordable way to improve research quality: A simulation study” by Adrian Barnett, Pauline Zardo, and Nicholas Graves, published at PLoS One] “The “publish or perish” incentive drives many researchers to increase the…
Read MoreAnyone Interested in Participating in an Economics Replication Experiment?
[From the “2018 Economics Replication Project” posted by Nick Huntington-Klein and Andy Gill of California State University, Fullerton] “In this project, we are asking recruited researchers to perform a “blind” replication of one of two studies. Without telling researchers the…
Read MoreNature Journal Says It Supports Replications. But Then There’s Revealed Preference.
[From the article, “One team’s struggle to publish a replication attempt, part 3” by Mante Nieuwland, published at Retraction Watch] “The purpose of this post was to provide a transparent, behind-the-scenes account of our replication study and what happened when…
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