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IN THE NEWS: The Economist (June 18, 2016)
[From the article “Come Again”]: “The GRIM test, short for granularity-related inconsistency of means, is a simple way of checking whether the results of small studies of the sort beloved of psychologists (those with fewer than 100 participants) could be…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: NY Times (May 27, 2016)
In an article entitled “Why Do So Many Studies Fail to Replicate,” Jay Van Bavel, an associate professor of psychology at NYU, writes: “In a paper published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, my collaborators…
Read MorePublication Bias in Action: The Case of Oxytocin and Trust
[From the article, “How scientists fell in and out of love with the hormone oxytocin” in Vox:Science & Health] This article recounts how initial laboratory research showing the hormone oxytocin induced trust between people eventually was demonstrated to be mostly Type I error….
Read MoreSo Is There a Replicability Crisis? Or What?
[From the blog Core Economics] Experimental economist ANDREAS ORTMANN reflects on the recent replicability studies in psychology and economics and tackles the question of what it all means. The article is entitled, “So, is there a crisis? Or is there…
Read MoreRecap of the Current “Replicability Crisis” in Psychology: No Pain No Gain?
[From the article “What psychology’s crisis means for the future of science” in Vox] This article provides a nice summary of the recent controversy about replicability in psychology. It concludes that this period of introspection is ultimately good for that discipline. To…
Read MoreMaybe There is Only a Replication Crisis for Published Research
[From an article in the Washington Post entitled “Does social science have a replication crisis?”] This article consists of an interview with Kevin Mullinix, Thomas Leeper, and Alex Cox. The article highlights their recent research which reports a high rate…
Read MoreReplication Bombshells in Psychology: They Just Keep Coming
[From the article “Everything is Crumbling” in Slate] “A paper now in press, and due to publish next month in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, describes a massive effort to reproduce the main effect that underlies [the psychological theory of ego…
Read MoreIs There Or Is There Not a Replication Crisis in Psychology? That is the Question
[H/T to Retraction Watch for the material in this post] This past week, the journal Science published a study by Dan Gilbert, Gary King and others refuting the claims of Brian Nosek and the Reproducibility Project Psychology (RPP). The RPP…
Read MoreThe Economist Writes About Replications AGAIN!
Replications are hot. Don’t believe me, just read The Economist. This is the third story related to scientific reliability/replications this past month. To read more, click here.
Read MoreMICHELE NUIJTEN: The Replication Paradox
Lately, there has been a lot of attention for the excess of false positive and exaggerated findings in the published scientific literature. In many different fields there are reports of an impossibly high rate of statistically significant findings, and studies…
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