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COUPÉ: Why You Should Add a Specification Curve Analysis to Your Replications – and All Your Papers!
When making a conclusion based on a regression, we typically need to assume that the specification we use is the ‘correct’ specification. That is, we include the right control variables, use the right estimation technique, apply the right standard errors,…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Wired (November 26, 2019)
[Excerpts taken from the article, “We’re All ‘P-Hacking’ Now” by Christie Aschwanden, publised in Wired] “It’s got an entry in the Urban Dictionary, been discussed on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, scored a wink from Cards Against Humanity, and now it’s been featured…
Read MoreWhat Causes a Person to Become an “Open Science Convert”?
From the blog “Reflections of an open science convert. 1: Why I changed my research practices” (Part 1 of a 3-part series) by Ineke Wessel, posted at Mindwise] “Five years after Stapel’s fraud first became known, I came across Brian Wansink’s…
Read MoreHow Pre-Registration Can Lead to Higher-Powered Studies and Increase Reproducibility
[From the paper “Preregistration and reproducibility” by Eirik Strømland, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Psychology] “I present a simple model in which the research community is populated by agents who may report their results unconditionally or conditionally on statistical…
Read MoreThe Garden of Forking Paths Strikes Again!
[From the abstract of the article, “Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results”, published by Silberzahn et al. in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science] “Twenty-nine teams involving 61 analysts used the same…
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