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How to Get Something from Nothing. Or, “Yes, Virginia, You Can Do Ex-post Power Analyses”.

[From the article, “The effect of the conservation reserve program on rural economies: Deriving a statistical verdict from a null finding” by Jason Brown, Dayton Lambert, and Timothy Wojan, recently published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics] “This article suggests…

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RANDALL & WELSER: On the Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science

[This post is based on the report,  “The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science: Causes, Consequences and the Road to Reform”, recently published by the National Association of Scholars] For more than a decade, and especially since the publication of a…

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