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Journal-Based Replication
[Excerpts taken from the article “A Journal-Based Replication of ‘Being Chosen to Lead’” by Allen Drazen, Anna Dreber, Erkut Ozbay, and Erik Snowberg, posted at Snowberg’s website at the California Institute of Technology] “More replication seems needed, and there is…
Read MorePredicting Reproducibility. No PhD Required.
[Excerpts taken from the article “Laypeople Can Predict Which Social Science Studies Replicate” by Suzanne Hoogeveen, Alexandra Sarafoglou, and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, posted at PsyArXiv Preprints] “…we assess the extent to which a finding’s replication success relates to its intuitive plausibility….
Read MoreIt May Be Intelligent, But Is It Reproducible?
[Excerpts taken from the article, “Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis’” by Gregory Barber, published at Wired.com] “A few years ago, Joelle Pineau, a computer science professor at McGill, was helping her students design a new algorithm when they fell…
Read MorePFEIFFER: Taking Replication Markets To a Whole New Level
Replication markets are prediction markets run in conjunction with systematic replication projects. We conducted such markets for the Replication Project: Psychology (RPP), Experimental Economics Replication Project (EERP), Social Science Replication Project (SSRP) and the Many Labs 2 Project (ML2). The…
Read MoreIs 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….
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