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Getting Pre-Registration Right Is Not So Easy
[From the paper, “Ensuring the quality and specificity of preregistrations” by C.L.S. Veldkamp et al., posted at PsyArXiv Preprints] “…we evaluated two preregistration formats that are available on the OSF: a lightweight format that maximizes flexibility for the researcher to…
Read MoreHow do Psychologists Interpret Nonsignificant Results? Evidence from the Journals
[From the abstract to the article, “Quantifying Support for the Null Hypothesis in Psychology: An Empirical Investigation” by Aczel et al., recently published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science] “In the traditional statistical framework, nonsignificant results leave researchers…
Read MoreDon’t Think of Them as Students. Think of Them As Potential Pre-Registration Replicators.
[From the Research page of Gilad Feldman’s website.] “In 2016, following recent developments in psychological science (the so called “replication crisis”) and gaining my academic independence, I decided to make serious changes to my research agenda to prioritize pre-registered replications…
Read MoreReproducibility. You Can Do This.
[From the paper, “Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability” by Michele Nuijten, forthcoming in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology] “Several large-scale problems are affecting the validity and reproducibility of scientific research. … Many of the suggested solutions are…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Guardian (August 23, 2018)
[From the blog, “Open science is now the only way forward for psychology” by Chris Chambers and Pete Etchells, posted in the Science Blog Network at http://www.theguardian.com%5D “When we launched Head Quarters five years ago, psychology was in a pretty dark…
Read MoreA Unified Framework for Quantifying Scientific Credibility?
[From the abstract of the paper, “A Unified Framework to Quantify the Credibility of Scientific Findings”, by Etienne LeBel, Randy McCarthy, Brian Earp, Malte Elson, and Wolf Vanpaemel, published in the journal, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science] “…we…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: NY Times (August 6, 2018)
[From a letter to the editor by Arthur C. Evans Jr., chief executive of the American Psychological Association] “We are proud that psychologists are at the forefront of those calling for reassessment of earlier research. The American Psychological Association has embraced…
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