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Not Only That, Effect Sizes from Registered Reports Are Also Much Lower
[In a recent post at TRN, we highlighted that positive results were drastically lower in registered reports. In this post, we report findings about effect sizes. Excerpts are taken from “The Meaningfulness of Effect Sizes in Psychological Research: Differences Between…
Read MorePositive Findings are Drastically Lower in Registered Reports
[From slides prepared for the talk “Positive result rates in psychology: Registered Reports compared to the conventional literature” by Mitchell Schijen, Anne Scheel, and Daniël Lakens, presented at Open Science 2019 @ZPID, Trier , and posted at OSF] Conclusion: “Positive result rate in…
Read MorePre-Registration: The Doctor is Still Out
[From the article “A solution to psychology’s reproducibility problem just failed its first test” by David Adam, published at http://www.sciencemag.org] “Efforts to improve the robustness of research by asking psychologists to state their methods and goals ahead of time, a process…
Read MoreDoes Psychology Have a Publication Bias Problem? Yes and No
[From the article, “The Meaningfulness of Effect Sizes in Psychological Research: Differences Between Sub-Disciplines and the Impact of Potential Biases” by Thomas Schäfer and Marcus Schwarz, published April 11, 2019 in Frontiers in Psychology] “From past publications without preregistration, 900…
Read MoreREED: Replications in Economics are Different from Replications in Psychology, and Other Thoughts
In July 2017, Economics: The Open Access, Open Assessment E-Journal issued a call for papers for a special issue on the practice of replication. The call stated, “This special issue is designed to highlight alternative approaches to doing replications, while…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Scicurious (December 16, 2018)
[From the article “Sometimes a failure to replicate a study isn’t a failure at all” by Bethany Brookshire, published in Scicurious] “As anyone who has ever tried a diet knows, exerting willpower can be exhausting. After a whole day spent…
Read MoreUsing Bayesian Reanalysis to Decide Which Studies to Replicate
[From the preprint “When and Why to Replicate: As Easy as 1, 2, 3?” by Sarahanne Field, Rink Hoekstra, Laura Bringmann, and Don van Ravenzwaaij, posted at PsyArXiv Preprints.] “…a flood of new replications of existing research have reached the…
Read MoreThe (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: A Personal Example From the Authors?
[From the blog entitled “Oh, I hate it when work is criticized (or, in this case, fails in attempted replications) and then the original researchers don’t even consider the possibility that maybe in their original work they were inadvertently just…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: FiveThirtyEight (December 6, 2018)
[From the article “Psychology’s Replication Crisis Has Made The Field Better” by Christie Aschwanden, published at FiveThirtyEight] “The replication crisis arose from a series of events that began around 2011, the year that social scientists Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson and…
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