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AoI*: “Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope” by Brodeur et al. (2024)
[*AoI = “Articles of Interest” is a feature of TRN where we report abstracts of recent research related to replication and research integrity.] ABSTRACT (taken from the article) “This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by producing and replicating claims…
Read MoreCOUPÉ: I Tried to Replicate a Paper with ChatGPT 4. Here is What I Learned.
Recent research suggests ChatGPT ‘aced the test of understanding in college economics’, ChatGPT ‘is effective in stock selection’ , that it “can predict future interest rate decisions” and that using ChatGPT “can yield more accurate predictions and enhance the performance…
Read MoreAoI*: “Reproduction and Replication at Scale” by Brodeur et al. (2024)
[*AoI = “Articles of Interest” is a feature of TRN where we report excerpts of recent research related to replication and research integrity.] EXCERPTS (taken from the article) “We are thrilled to announce that we are broadening our focus to new…
Read MoreAoI*: “High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable” by Protzko et al. (2023)
[*AoI = “Articles of Interest” is a feature of TRN where we report abstracts of recent research related to replication and research integrity.] ABSTRACT (taken from the article) “Failures to replicate evidence of new discoveries have forced scientists to ask…
Read MoreVON HIPPEL: When Does Science Self-Correct? Lessons from a Replication Crisis in Early 20th Century Chemistry
NOTE: This blog is a repost of one originally published at The Good Science Project (click here) Science is self-correcting—or so we are told. But in truth it can be very hard to expunge errors from the scientific record. In…
Read MoreFEATURED RESEARCH: 2 Recent Papers on the Role of the Media in Reproducibility
Two recent papers look at the influence of media on replications and retractions. A paper by Eleonora Alabrese concludes that “media coverage shapes the auto-correcting process of science by reducing the amount of misinformation and increasing punishment for retracted authors.”…
Read MoreFEATURED RESEARCH (“Reassessing the Effects of a Communication-and-Resolution Program on Hospitals’ Malpractice Claims and Costs”) – Another Example of a Journal Behaving Badly
NOTE: According to the SCImago Journal Rankings, Health Affairs is ranked in the top quartile (Q1) of journals in the “Health Policy” and “Medicine (miscellaneous)” subject areas. It has an H-index of 190. [Excerpts are taken from the article “Reassessing…
Read MoreINVITATION: Join the Many-Economists Project!
This is an invitation to join a project that aims to improve the quality of research in applied microeconomics by examining the choices that researchers make. We are hoping to recruit up to 200 participants. Full participants in this project…
Read MoreREED & WU: EiR* – Missing Data
[* EiR = Econometrics in Replications, a feature of TRN that highlights useful econometrics procedures for re-analysing existing research.] NOTE: This blog uses Stata for its estimation. All the data and code necessary to reproduce the results in the tables…
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