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IN THE NEWS: The Economist (21 January 2016)
(FROM THE ARTICLE “Are Results in Top Journals To Be Trusted?”) A paper recently published in the American Economic Journal, entitled “Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back”, “analyses 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in three top American journals. It finds that the…
Read MoreREBLOG: The Reformation: Can Social Scientists Save Themselves?
We recently came across this article in the May/June 2014 issue of Pacific Standard magazine. Okay. It’s not “new”, but it provides an excellent historical overview of some of the issues associated with reproducibility of social science research. WARNING: It…
Read MoreOn p-Hacking, Retractions, and the Difficult Enterprise of Science
This article in FiveThirtyEighty.com is a great read for lots of reasons. The leitmotiv is that while science has its share of fraudsters and academic scammers, the underlying problem is that the scientific enterprise is inherently very, very difficult. To…
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