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NPR Podcast on What It Means When Replications Fail
[From the podcast “When Great Minds Think Unlike: Inside Science’s ‘Replication Crisis” from NPR’s Hidden Brain series] This podcast is distinguished by its discussion of what it means – and what it doesn’t mean – when a replication “fails.” It…
Read MoreSurvey in Nature Reports on How Scientists View the “Reproducibility Crisis”
From the article “1500 Scientists lift the lid on reproducibility” published in Nature: “More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. Those are some of…
Read MoreYouTube Video of Conference Session on Open Science
Earlier this month, the Psychonomic Society meetings held a session on Open Science. The session was recorded and is available on YouTube (click here). It consisted of four presentations. — “The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative” by RICHARD MOREY of Cardiff…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: NY Times (May 27, 2016)
In an article entitled “Why Do So Many Studies Fail to Replicate,” Jay Van Bavel, an associate professor of psychology at NYU, writes: “In a paper published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, my collaborators…
Read MoreOkCupid: Where Love and Data Transparency Don’t Match
Welcome to the tale of Emil Kirkegaard, a Danish postgraduate student, who has achieved worldwide notoriety for publishing data from the dating site, OkCupid. The story is well-told in a Vox article by Brian Resnick (click here). In addition to a…
Read MoreWorkshop: The Quest for Reproducible Science
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association, is hosting a one-day workshop on issues of reproducibility. The workshop will feature “scholars, librarians, and technologists” discussing “tools and techniques to manage data, enable research transparency, and…
Read MoreJournal Finds that Digital Badges Increase Data Sharing
[From the Retraction Watch website] “In January 2014, Psychological Science began rewarding digital badges to authors who committed to open science practices such as sharing data and materials. A study published today in PLOS Biology looks at whether publicizing such behavior helps encourage others to…
Read MoreJohn Oliver and Last Week Tonight on Replications and Scientific Reliability
How does one know when replication has hit the big time? When JOHN OLIVER and LAST WEEK TONIGHT do an entire episode on it. For readers of TRN, much of what he talks about will be familiar. Just a lot funnier. Check…
Read MoreA Replication Crisis in Cancer Research?
[From the article “Cancer Research is Broken” in Slate] “The deeper problem is that much of cancer research in the lab—maybe even most of it—simply can’t be trusted. The data are corrupt. The findings are unstable. The science doesn’t work. In…
Read MorePublication Bias in Action: The Case of Oxytocin and Trust
[From the article, “How scientists fell in and out of love with the hormone oxytocin” in Vox:Science & Health] This article recounts how initial laboratory research showing the hormone oxytocin induced trust between people eventually was demonstrated to be mostly Type I error….
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