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The American Statistical Association Wants to Change the Way We Use p-values
[From an article at Retraction Watch] “After reading too many papers that either are not reproducible or contain statistical errors (or both), the American Statistical Association (ASA) has been roused to action. Today the group released six principles for the use…
Read MoreReplication Bombshells in Psychology: They Just Keep Coming
[From the article “Everything is Crumbling” in Slate] “A paper now in press, and due to publish next month in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, describes a massive effort to reproduce the main effect that underlies [the psychological theory of ego…
Read MoreIs There Or Is There Not a Replication Crisis in Psychology? That is the Question
[H/T to Retraction Watch for the material in this post] This past week, the journal Science published a study by Dan Gilbert, Gary King and others refuting the claims of Brian Nosek and the Reproducibility Project Psychology (RPP). The RPP…
Read MoreWhat Do We Know About the Replicability of Psychology Experiments? Less Than We Thought
[FROM THE ARTICLE “STUDY THAT UNDERCUT PSYCH RESEARCH GOT IT WRONG” IN THE HARVARD GAZETTE] “In an attempt to determine the “replicability” of psychological science, a consortium of 270 scientists known as the Open Science Collaboration (OSC) tried to reproduce…
Read MoreReplicability of Laboratory Experiments in Economics: The Glass is 61% Full
[From the article “Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics” published in Science] Researchers today reported the results of a collaborative project in which 18 experimental economics studies originally published in the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics were replicated. The researchers…
Read MoreCan You Have Too Many Replications?
In a recent article in Nature, DALMEET SINGH CHAWLA asks “How Many Replication Studies Are Enough?” The article highlights the comments of psychologist Courtenay Norbury whose work on autism in children has apparently been replicated numerous times. So much so that another researcher…
Read MoreApply Now for $5000 Project TIER Faculty Fellowships
Project TIER has announced the second round of its annual TIER Faculty Fellowships for leaders in the development and dissemination of curriculum related to documentation and replicability of social science research. Fellows cooperate with Project TIER in activities such as…
Read MoreSpecial Issue on How to Improve Replication in the Social Sciences
The journal International Studies Perspective has a collection of articles that address various dimensions of replication in the social sciences, in general, and the field of international relations, in particular. An interesting proposal comes from an article by MICHAEL COLARESI, who…
Read MoreConcerned about publication bias? Use a critical t-value of 3
A new paper by GARRET CHRISTENSEN, JUSTIN MCCRAY and DANIELE FANELLI in PLOS ONE suggests an alternative to using conventional t-values when researchers are concerned about publication bias. From the Abstract: “Publication bias leads consumers of research to observe a selected sample…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Atlantic (19 February 2016)
(FROM THE ARTICLE “Psychology’s Replication Crisis Has a Silver Lining”) The author, a prominent professor of psychology at Yale University, argues that not all is gloom and doom. Some failures to replicate are due to noise swamping signal. Other failures to replicate…
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