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Incentives to Replicate: Show Me the Money!
[From the article “Go Forth and Replicate: On Creating Incentives for Repeat Studies” by Michael Schulson at the web magazine Undark] “Suggested reasons for the [replication] crisis are many. Some researchers have blamed the scientific publishing culture itself …. But some…
Read MoreAll Researchers Want Open Data, Right?
[From the blog by Justin Gallagher entitled “Public Data that Isn’t (or Wasn’t) Public” posted at BITSS] “I recently completed a coauthored working paper, together with Paul J. Fisher, that examines whether electronic monitoring via red light traffic cameras leads to…
Read MoreWhat?! You Don’t Believe in Badges?!!
[The following is taken from a blog by Hilda Bastian at the blogsite “Absolutely Maybe” at PLOS Blogs] “As I’ve spent time with the badges “magic bullet” – simple! cheap! no side effects! dramatic benefits! – supported by a single…
Read MoreHmmm. Maybe the R-Factor is NOT the answer.
In a recent post, TRN highlighted a recent working paper touting the benefits of something called an “R-Factor.” The R-Factor is a metric that would report — for each published empirical study — the reproducibility rate of that study in…
Read MorePre-register. Make a $1000. Really?
[From the Center for Open Science webpage.] “If you have a project that is entering the planning or data collection phase, we’d like you to try out a preregistration. Through our $1 Million Preregistration Challenge, we’re giving away $1,000 to 1,000…
Read MoreA Pop Quiz on Significant Effects with Small Sample Sizes
QUICK: Does finding a significant effect when the sample size is small make it more likely that the effects are real and important? Or less? James Heckman, Nobel Prize winning economist, says more: “Also holding back progress are those who…
Read MoreIs the R-Factor the Answer?
In a recent working paper (“Science with no fiction: measuring the veracity of scientific reports by citation analysis”), Peter Grabitz, Yuri Lazebnik, Josh Nicholson, and Sean Rife suggest that one solution to the “crisis” in scientific credibility is publication of an article’s…
Read MorePOV: Registered Reports Versus Results-Free Peer Reviews
The main difference between “registered reports” and “results-free peer reviews” is timing of data analysis. With registered reports, plans are registered and reviewed before data are collected and analyzed. With results-free peer reviews, everything is completed, but the reviewers are…
Read MoreDo Guidelines on Statistical Practice Make a Difference?
[The post below comes from a review by Richard Morey of the article “Meeting the challenge of the Psychonomic Society’s 2012 Guidelines on Statistical Issues: Some success and some room for improvement“, published in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review by Peter…
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