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Is It Pointless to Try and Predict Reproducibility?
[Excerpts taken from the blog “Responding to the replication crisis: reflections on Metascience2019” by Dorothy Bishop, published at her blogsite, BishopBlog] “I’m just back from MetaScience 2019…It is a sign of a successful meeting, I think, if it gets people…raising…
Read MoreYour Definition of Replication is (Probably) Wrong
[From the preprint, “What is Replication?” by Brian Nosek and Tim Errington, posted at MetaArXiv Preprints] “According to common understanding, replication is repeating a study’s procedure and observing whether the prior finding recurs…This definition of replication is intuitive, easy to…
Read MoreThe Replication Crisis: To Smile, Or Not To Smile, That is the Question
[Excerpts are taken from the article “Can Smiling Really Make You Happier?” by Cathleen O’Grady, published at FiveThirtyEight.com] “In 1988, social psychologist Fritz Strack published a study that…asked participants to…hold a pen in their mouths in a position that forced…
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 MoreFIDLER & MODY: The repliCATS Bus – Where It’s Been, Where It’s Going
For several years now scientists—in at least some disciplines—have been concerned about low rates of replicability. As scientists in those fields, we worry about the development of cumulative knowledge, and about wasted research effort. An additional challenge is to consider…
Read MoreIs It Persistence Over Time? Or Over Space?
[From the article “The standard errors of persistence” by Morgan Kelly, published at Vox – CEPR Policy Portal] “Does the slave trade continue to affect trust between people in Africa? Does a country’s prosperity depend on the genetic diversity of…
Read MoreUpdate from the AEA Data Editor on Replication and Reproducibility
[From the presentation slides on “Replication and Reproducibility in Social Sciences and Statistics: Context, Concerns, and Concrete Measures” by Lars Vilhuber, AEA Data Editor, presented at the 2019 Western Economics Association International meetings] NOTE: Just so there is no misunderstanding,…
Read MoreExperts Are Not Know-It-Alls (Experimentally Speaking)
[From the paper “Stability of experimental results: Forecasts and evidence” by Stefano DellaVigna and Devin Pope, an NBER Working Paper] “How robust are experimental results to changes in design? And can researchers anticipate which changes matter most? We consider a…
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