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Bayes Factors Versus p-Values
In a recent article in PLOS One, Don van Ravenzwaaij and John Ioannidis argue that Bayes factors should be preferred to significance testing (p-values) when assessing the effectiveness of new drugs. At his blogsite The 20% Statistician, Daniel Lakens argues…
Read MoreHow to Fix the “Reproducibility Crisis”? Three Solutions
[From the article “The science ‘reproducibility crisis’ — and what can be done about it” from the website theconversation.com.] “Reproducibility is the idea that an experiment can be repeated by another scientist and they will get the same result. It is…
Read MoreHow Many Ways Are There to Replicate? The Journal Scientific Data Presents a Collection of Examples
[From the abstract of the article, “Replication data collection highlights value in diversity of replication attempts”, by DeSoto and Schweinsberg in the journal Scientific Data.] “Researchers agree that replicability and reproducibility are key aspects of science. A collection of Data…
Read MoreThe Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative (Part 2): Get the App!
Tom Hardwicke, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Meta-Research Innovation Center (METRICS) at Stanford, has written an app to collect and summarize reviewers’ experiences with encouraging data transparency when they review for journals. Hardwicke describes his app as follows: “The PRO…
Read MoreThe Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative (Part 1): Storm Brewing Within the American Psychological Association
[From the article “Peer-review activists push psychology journals towards open data” at nature.com] “An editor on the board of a journal published by the prestigious American Psychological Association (APA) has been asked to resign in a controversy over data sharing…
Read MoreHow Many Carrots Can Brian Wansink Eat?
[From the article “Introducing SPRITE (and the Case of the Carthorse Child)” by James Heathers at the website Hackernoon] “So, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard about the recent trouble with a rash of papers from the Cornell Food and…
Read More“What Do Economists Know?” Not As Much As They Could
[From the article “What Do Economists Know?” by Russ Roberts at the website Medium] In this article, Russ Roberts argues that economists don’t know as much as everybody, especially economists!, would like them to know. However, there are some things that…
Read MoreSpecial Issue Calls for Papers on Replication
The journal Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. As part of its anniversary relaunch, the journal is publishing a special issue on replications. “This special issue is designed to highlight alternative approaches to doing replications, while also…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: BBC (February 22, 2017)
[From the article “Most scientists can’t replicate studies by their peers” from the BBC/News/Science&Environment website] “Science is facing a “reproducibility crisis” where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, research suggests. This is frustrating…
Read MoreGot Reproducibility? No? Check out the Project Tier Workshop for Faculty
[From the Project Tier website] Project Tier offers faculty development workshops to help faculty incorporate reproducibility in their research supervision and teaching. “These Workshops will introduce participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. They are intended for faculty…
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