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Kahneman Shows the Right Way In Getting It Wrong
[From the website Retraction Watch] “Although it’s the right thing to do, it’s never easy to admit error — particularly when you’re an extremely high-profile scientist whose work is being dissected publicly. So while it’s not a retraction, we thought this…
Read MoreCheck It Out: Replications in International Relations
[from Nicole Janz’s blog at Political Science Replication] “Nils Petter Gledisch and I just published a guest blog post about replication in international relations at the OUP blog. The blog is based on new research in the field, which we…
Read MoreAndrew Gelman Asks, Does Criticizing Bad Research Do More Harm Than Good?
In a recent post at his blogsite, Statistical Modeling, Causal inference, and Social Science, Andrew Gelman asks whether his recent criticisms on statistical grounds of a prominent researcher’s experiments on healthy eating are doing more harm than good. The researcher, Brian Wansink, is John…
Read MoreSome Tools for Checking Reliability in Others’ Research, and Ensuring Reliability in Your Own
[From the blogsite “The Skeptical Scientist” by Tim van der Zee] “Roughly speaking there are two kind of tools which I will list here. First, it is important to be skeptical of what you read, such as checking reported statistics….
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: VOX (January 23, 2017)
[From the article “Cancer scientists are having trouble replicating groundbreaking research” from the Vox website] “Replication has emerged as a powerful tool to check science and get us closer to the truth. Researchers take an experiment that’s already been done,…
Read MoreDoes Anybody Really Care?
Tyler Cowen, at his blogsite Marginal Revolution — after noting that the four AEA American Economic Journals allow for comments to appear on articles’ official webpage posts, but that this feature is not widely used — makes this statement: “One of…
Read MoreThe Journal Nature Human Behaviour Announces Registered Reports Policy
[From the home page of the journal Nature Human Behaviour] “Authors who wish to publish their work with us have the option of a registered report. With this format, acceptance in principle happens before the research outcomes are known. As a…
Read MoreCollege Credit for Bullsh*t?
Two faculty at the University of Washington, Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West, recently proposed a university course entitled, “Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data”. They describe the motivation and aim of the course as follows: “Politicians are unconstrained…
Read MoreThe American Statistical Association Announces A New Reproducibility Policy
[From Dave Giles’ blog Econometrics Beat] The American Statistical Association announced several new initiatives to enhance reproducibility at its flagship journal, the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA). In addition to requiring submitters to provide data and code, JASA…
Read MoreStatTag: A Free Plug-in For Producing Dynamic Documents in Word
[From the StatTag webpage at Northwestern University] “StatTag is a free software plug-in for conducting reproducible research. It facilitates the creation of dynamic documents using Microsoft Word documents and statistical software, such as Stata. Users can use StatTag to embed statistical…
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