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What Can Meta-Analyses Tell Us About Reproducibility?
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[From the abstract of the article “What Meta-Analyses Reveal About the Replicability of Psychological Research” by T.D. Stanley, Evan Carter, and Hristos Doucouliagos, published in Psychological Bulletin] “Can recent failures to replicate psychological research be explained by typical magnitudes of statistical power,bias…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Chris Doucouliagos, Heterogeneity, Meta-analysis, Power, Psychological Bulletin, Psychology, replication, Tom Stanley
Are Meta-Analyses Overrated?
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[From the article, “Meta-analyses were supposed to end scientific debates. Often, they only cause more controversy” by Jop de Vrieze, published at http://www.sciencemag.org%5D “Meta-analyses were thought to be debate enders, but now we know they rarely are,” Ferguson says. “They should…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Cochrane, Media violence, Meta-analysis, Science journal, Video games
IN THE NEWS: Wired (November 14, 2017)
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[From the article “The Dismal Science Remains Dismal, Say Scientists” by Adam Rogers at wired.com] “WHEN HRISTOS DOUCOULIAGOS was a young economist in the mid-1990s, he got interested in all the ways economics was wrong about itself—bias, underpowered research, statistical shenanigans. Nobody wanted…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: COLIN CAMERER, Hristos Doucouliagos, John Ioannidis, Meta-analysis, Reproducibility, Underpowered
FYI: ScienceOpen Has a Collection of Papers on How to Fix the Replicability Crisis
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ScienceOpen has a collection entitled: “Remedies to the Reproducibility Crisis”. The collection is introduced thusly: “Psychology, Medicine, Neuroscience and many other research fields, are facing a serious reproducibility crisis, that is, most of the findings published in peer-review journals, independently…
Read MoreConcurrent Replication
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[From Rolf Zwaan’s blog “Zeitgeist”.] “A form of replication that has received not much attention yet is what I will call concurrent replication. The basic idea is this. A research group formulates a hypothesis that they want to test. At…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Concurrent replication, Meta-analysis, Pre-registration, replication, Rolf Zwaan
Another Session on Reproducibility at the 2017 ASSA Meetings
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TRN previously posted about two sessions on replication at the 2017 ASSA meetings. In what may be a sign of changing times, the American Economic Association is sponsoring a third session on this topic. The session, “Meta-Analysis and Reproducibility in…
Read MoreCategory: Uncategorised Tags: BITSS, Chris Doucouliagos, John Ioannidis, Meta-analysis, Reproducibility, SSMART grants, Tom Stanley
Everything is F**KED: The Syllabus
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Come on, admit it. This is the course you really want to teach. Professor Sanjay Srivastava’s PSY607’s weekly topics include: –Significance testing is f**ked — Causal inference from experiments is f**ked — Replicability is f**ked — Scientific publishing is f**ked…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: f**ked, Meta-analysis, replication, Sanjay Srivastava, significance testing, Syllabus
ETIENNE LEBEL: Introducing “CurateScience.Org”
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It is my pleasure to introduce Curate Science (http://CurateScience.org) to The Replication Network. Curate Science is a web application that aims to facilitate and incentivize the curation and verification of empirical results in the social sciences (initial focus in Psychology)….
Read MoreCategory: GUEST BLOGS Tags: CurateScience.org, Etienne LeBel, Forest plot, Meta-analysis, Psychology
ARJEN VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN: A Manifesto, and a Petition
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Science is a community of human beings of the homo sapiens species: bipedals with the capacity to be self-reflexive. This implies that science as a community is subject to all the same behavioral patterns that all human communities are, including…
Read MoreCategory: GUEST BLOGS Tags: Manifesto, Meta-analysis, Petition, Popper, replication, Van Witteloostuijn
You Say Replication. I say Meta-analysis.
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In this article from Time Higher Education, WOLFGANG STROEBE and MILES HEWSTONE ask “What have we learned from the Reproducibility Project?” The short answer is — in their opinion — not much. Instead, they argue that the replicating researchers would have…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Meta-analysis, Miles Hewstone, Psychology, Reproducibility Project, Wolfgang Stroebe
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