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Prediction Markets for Social Science Replication Project Opening Soon

The Open Science Framework announces the opening of a prediction market (PM) to accompany a new replication project.  Over the period September 2016 to September 2017, 21 experimental studies that were published from 2010-2014 in the journals Science and Nature  will…

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Registered Replications? There’s a Course for That

Professor Eric-Jan “EJ” Wagenmakers, Professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, has been a leading advocate for pre-registration, replication, and the use of Bayesian statistics, particularly in replication studies.  An interview that highlights his professional contributions can be found…

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MAREN DUVENDACK: What are Registered Replication Reports?

Academia has been abuzz in recent years with new initiatives focusing on research transparency, replication and reproducibility of research. Notable in this regard are the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, and the Reproducibility Initiative which PLOS and…

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Getting the Publishers Into the Act

At a recent Wiley Executive Seminar, participants from the academic research and publishing community discussed how open science can reduce research bias.  Two trends are particularly noteworthy.  The first is that the TOP guidelines (Transparency and Openness Promotion) are gaining prominence….

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Podcast from Science Friday on Replication

This short podcast, just 12 minutes, is worth a listen.  It is an interview on Science Friday with Dan Simons, Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, and Barbara Spellman, former editor at Perspectives on Psychological Science, on a new…

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