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Data Sharing: Good Research Practice? Or an Impediment to Science?
[Excerpts taken from the article “E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules” by Lisa Friedman, published in the New York Times] “The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government…
Read MoreData Sharing in Addiction Journals? Yeah, It’s Not Happening There
[Excerpts taken from the article “Data sharing practices in randomized trials of addiction interventions” by Matt Vassar, Sam Jellison, Hannah Wendelbo, and Cole Wayant, published in the journal Addictive Behaviors] “We conducted a 6 year cross-sectional investigation of the rates…
Read MorePre-registration: The Naysayers Strike Back!
[Excerpts taken from the preprint, “Preregistration is redundant, at best” by Aba Szollosi et al., posted at PsyArXiv Preprints] “The key implication argued by proponents of preregistration is that it improves the diagnosticity of statistical tests…In the strong version of…
Read MoreJournal-Based Replication
[Excerpts taken from the article “A Journal-Based Replication of ‘Being Chosen to Lead’” by Allen Drazen, Anna Dreber, Erkut Ozbay, and Erik Snowberg, posted at Snowberg’s website at the California Institute of Technology] “More replication seems needed, and there is…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Reason (October 22, 2019)
[Excerpts taken from the article “A Famous Study Found That Blind Auditions Reduced Sexism in the Orchestra. Or Did It?” by Robby Soave, published in Reason Magazine] “One of the best-known scientific studies to posit that implicit bias—the idea that…
Read MoreAnd Now an “Inference Crisis”?
[Excerpts are taken from the article “Assessing Theoretical Conclusions With Blinded Inference to Investigate a Potential Inference Crisis” by Starns et al., published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science] “The replication crisis in science has led to…
Read MoreRegistered Reports 2.0
[Excerpt taken from the article “What’s next for Registered Reports?” by Chris Chambers, published in Nature] “For the past six years, I have championed Registered Reports (RRs), a type of research article that is radically different from conventional papers. The…
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