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Nicole Janz (University of Nottingham, @PolSciReplicate) has a set of great resources for those looking for an example of a pre-registration assignment for undergraduates (this for a political science course). The slides to accompany the assignment are here. The template…
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[From the press release “Can machines determine the credibility of research claims? The Center for Open Science joins a new DARPA program to find out” from the Center for Open Science] “The Center for Open Science (COS) has been selected…
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[From the working paper “Predicting the Replicability of Social Science Lab Experiments” by Altmejd et al., posted at BITSS Preprints] “We have 131 direct replications in our dataset. Each can be judged categorically by whether it succeeded or failed, by a…
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[From the syllabus for “POLI 229: Social Science Replication”, taught by Gareth Nellis at the University of California San Diego] “The purpose of this class is to learn how to do cutting-edge empirical research in the social sciences by replicating…
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[From the paper “Good and Bad Replications in Political Science: How Replicators and Original Authors (Should) Talk to Each Other” by Nicole Janz and Jeremy Freese, prepared for presentation at the MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019] “We propose two main…
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[This post is cross-published on FHI 360’s R&E Search for Evidence blog] There are many debates about the definitions and distinctions for replication research, particularly for internal replication research, which is conducted using the original dataset from an article or study. The…
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Category: GUEST BLOGS
Tags: 3ie, 3ie replication programme, Annette N. Brown, Benjamin Wood, FHI 360, Impact evaluation, International development, PLOS ONE, Push button reproducibility, R&E Search for Evidence, replication
[From the preprint “When and Why to Replicate: As Easy as 1, 2, 3?” by Sarahanne Field, Rink Hoekstra, Laura Bringmann, and Don van Ravenzwaaij, posted at PsyArXiv Preprints.] “…a flood of new replications of existing research have reached the…
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[From the article “Automatic extraction of quantitative data from ClinicalTrials.gov to conduct meta-analyses” by Richeek Pradhan et al., published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology] “Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are labor-intensive and time-consuming. Automated extraction of quantitative data from primary…
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[From the article “Push button replication: Is impact evaluation evidence for international development verifiable?” by Benjamin Wood, Rui Müller, and Annette Brown, published in PLoS ONE] “…We drew a sample of articles from the ten journals that published the most…
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[From the article “Reproducibility of Scientific Results”, by Fiona Fidler and John Wilcox, published in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy] “This review consists of four distinct parts. First, we look at the term “reproducibility” and related terms like “repeatability” and…
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