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Reproducibility: The Year in Review
[From the article “The State of Reproducibility: 16 Advances from 2016”, posted at the website for JoVE, the Journal of Visual Experiments] “2016 saw a tremendous amount of discussion and development on the subject of scientific reproducibility. Were you able…
Read MoreTwo Sessions on Replications at the ASSA Meetings in January
For those interested in replications who happen to be in Chicago in early January, you may find the following two sessions at the ASSA meetings to be of interest: Session: REPLICATION AND ETHICS IN ECONOMICS: THIRTY YEARS AFTER DEWALD, THURSBY…
Read MoreBITSS Announces 10 Recipients for This Year’s Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science
[From the website of the Berkeley Institute of Transparency in the Social Sciences — BITSS] The ten recipients are: — “Dr. ERIC-JAN WAGENMAKERS, Professor of Mathematical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and widely recognized pioneer in promoting reproducible research”…
Read MoreEnergy Economics Announces a Special Replications Issue
The journal Energy Economics announced it was putting on a special issue dedicated to replications. While all types of replications are invited, two types are of particular interest. First, replications of older research that has been widely cited or influential…
Read MoreA Timeline of the Reproducibility Crisis in Science
[From the blog, “Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability” by Hilda Bastian at her PLoS blogsite, Absolutely Maybe] “It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in…
Read MorePeer Review Has Low Power: Act Surprised
[From the article “Peer review post-mortem: how a flawed aging study was published in Nature“, posted at the website, nrc.nl] “How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of…
Read MoreReplication: The Debate
On September 29, a public debate was held on the campus of NYU. The subject of the debate was “Do Replication Projects Cast Doubt On Many Published Studies in Psychology?” The debate pitted Brian Nosek, director of the Center for…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: CBC News (November 24, 2016)
[From the article “We’ve Been Deceived: Many Clinical Trial Results Are Never Published”] It is now common practice for clinical trials to register their protocols prior to enrolling participants. These efforts are important if the research community is to have…
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