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Et tu, Finance?
[Excerpts are taken from the article “The hidden ‘replication crisis’ of finance”, by Robin Wigglesworth, published at Financial Times online.] “It may sound like a low-budget Blade Runner rip-off, but over the past decade the scientific world has been gripped…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Undark (November 20, 2019)
[Excerpts taken from the article “A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis” by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, published in Undark] “In 2008, psychologists proposed that when humans are shown an unfamiliar face, they judge it on two main dimensions:…
Read MoreReplication Crisis? What Replication Crisis?
[Excerpts taken from the article “No Crisis but No Time for Complacency” by Wendy Wood and Timothy Wilson, published in Observer Magazine] “The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently published a report titled Reproducibility and Replicability in Science….
Read MoreCould Bayes Have Saved Us From the Replication Crisis?
[Excerpts are taken from the article “The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis” by Aubrey Clayton, published at nautil.us] “Suppose an otherwise healthy woman in her forties notices a suspicious lump in her breast and goes in for a mammogram….
Read MoreDisagreeing With Disagreeing About Abandoning Statistical Significance
[From the preprint “Abandoning statistical significance is both sensible and practical” by Valentin Amrhein, Andrew Gelman, Sander Greenland, and Blakely McShane, available at PeerJ Preprints] “Dr Ioannidis writes against our proposals to abandon statistical significance…” “…we disagree that a statistical…
Read MoreIt’s Not A Problem, It’s an Opportunity
[From the blog “The replication crisis is good for science” by Eric Loken, published at The Conversation] “Science is in the midst of a crisis: A surprising fraction of published studies fail to replicate when the procedures are repeated.” “Is…
Read MoreUsing Z-Curve to Estimate Mean Power for Studies Published in Psychology Journals
[From the blog “Estimating the Replicability of Psychological Science” by Ulrich Schimmack, posted at Replicability-Index] “Over the past years, I have been working on an … approach to estimate the replicability of psychological science. This approach starts with the simple…
Read MorePicking Significant Estimates to Replicate Can Induce “Replication Crisis”-Like Results
[From the paper “Statistical Methods for Replicability Assessment” by Kenneth Hung and William Fithian, posted at ArXiv.org. Note that H&K’s paper is primarily concerned with presenting an empirical procedure for addressing questions about replicability after correcting for selection bias. This…
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