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A Painful (but Hilarious) Look at Data Availability and Reuse
[From the website, The Scholarly Kitchen] “Data availability and re-usability starts with best practices in collecting and storing data in the first place. The exasperatingly funny video below shows what happens when those best practices are ignored, something that’s much more…
Read MorePhD Students: Earn Cash Replicating RCTs
[From the website of The Poverty Action Lab, Department of Economics at MIT] “The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT’s economics department announces a fellowship program offering financial support (tuition assistance of up to $12,000 and a…
Read MoreFindings from a Registered Replication Project: Another Psychology Hypothesis Fails to Replicate
[From the website of the Association for Psychological Science] “A coordinated replication effort conducted across 17 labs found no evidence that surreptitiously inducing people to smile or frown affects their emotional state. The findings of the replication project are published…
Read MoreRegistered Replications? There’s a Course for That
Professor Eric-Jan “EJ” Wagenmakers, Professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, has been a leading advocate for pre-registration, replication, and the use of Bayesian statistics, particularly in replication studies. An interview that highlights his professional contributions can be found…
Read MoreNot to Sound Overly Dramatic, But Are Perverse Incentives Risking a “New Dark Age” in Science?
Recently, Paul Smaldino and Richard McElreath published the results of a computer simulation where scientific research is governed by “laws” of natural selection based on publishing “success.” Their finding that perverse incentives can cause “bad science” to push out good science…
Read MoreDo Research Assessment Systems like the UK’s Research Excellence Framework Discourage Replication?
[From the article “Why is so much research dodgy? Blame the Research Excellence Framework” in The Guardian] “In the UK, the Ref [Research Excellence Framework] ranks the published works of researchers according to their originality (how novel is the research?), significance…
Read MorePower Pose: The Glass is Half Full?
Recently, another sensational study from social psychology came under renewed criticism. The study, “Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance” , published in Psychological Science in 2010 by Dana Carney, Amy Cuddy, and Andy Yap claimed that adopting…
Read MoreWhy Are Replications Hot in Psychology But Not So Much in Economics?
In a recent blog at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, ANDREW GELMAN asks the question: “Why is so much of the discussion about psychology research? Why not economics, which is more controversial and gets more space in the news media? Or medicine,…
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