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Why Are Replications Hot in Psychology But Not So Much in Economics?
In a recent blog at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, ANDREW GELMAN asks the question: “Why is so much of the discussion about psychology research? Why not economics, which is more controversial and gets more space in the news media? Or medicine,…
Read MorePodcast on “The Replication Crisis”
On August 6th at a conference held at Berkeley (Effective Altruism Global 2016), four panellists discussed “The Replication Crisis”: Brian Nosek, Stuart Buck, Ivan Oransky, and Stephanie Wykstra (moderator = Julia Galef). Some of the questions addressed were: — Is failure…
Read MoreA Replication Crisis in Cancer Research?
[From the article “Cancer Research is Broken” in Slate] “The deeper problem is that much of cancer research in the lab—maybe even most of it—simply can’t be trusted. The data are corrupt. The findings are unstable. The science doesn’t work. In…
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