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3ie Wants You To Do a Replication for Them — And They’re Willing to Pay
[From 3ie — International Initiative for Impact Evaluation]: “3ie requests expressions of interest from researchers interested in conducting replication studies under 3ie’s Replication Window 4: Financial Services for the Poor…Funding is available to conduct internal replications of seven highly influential…
Read MoreBOB REED: Replications and Peer Review
“Weekend Reads”, the weekly summary by IVAN ORANSKY of Retraction Watch, recently listed two articles on Peer Review. One, a blog by George Borjas, concerns the recent imbroglio at the American Economic Review involving an editor who oversaw the review of…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: NY Times (May 27, 2016)
In an article entitled “Why Do So Many Studies Fail to Replicate,” Jay Van Bavel, an associate professor of psychology at NYU, writes: “In a paper published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, my collaborators…
Read MoreBOB REED: On Andrew Gelman, Retractions, and the Supply and Demand for Data Transparency
In a recent interview on Retraction Watch, Andrew Gelman reveals that what keeps him up at night isn’t scientific fraud, it’s “the sheer number of unreliable studies — uncorrected, unretracted — that have littered the literature.” He then goes on…
Read MoreJohn Oliver and Last Week Tonight on Replications and Scientific Reliability
How does one know when replication has hit the big time? When JOHN OLIVER and LAST WEEK TONIGHT do an entire episode on it. For readers of TRN, much of what he talks about will be familiar. Just a lot funnier. Check…
Read MoreSo Is There a Replicability Crisis? Or What?
[From the blog Core Economics] Experimental economist ANDREAS ORTMANN reflects on the recent replicability studies in psychology and economics and tackles the question of what it all means. The article is entitled, “So, is there a crisis? Or is there…
Read MoreRecap of the Current “Replicability Crisis” in Psychology: No Pain No Gain?
[From the article “What psychology’s crisis means for the future of science” in Vox] This article provides a nice summary of the recent controversy about replicability in psychology. It concludes that this period of introspection is ultimately good for that discipline. To…
Read MoreMaybe There is Only a Replication Crisis for Published Research
[From an article in the Washington Post entitled “Does social science have a replication crisis?”] This article consists of an interview with Kevin Mullinix, Thomas Leeper, and Alex Cox. The article highlights their recent research which reports a high rate…
Read MoreReplication Bombshells in Psychology: They Just Keep Coming
[From the article “Everything is Crumbling” in Slate] “A paper now in press, and due to publish next month in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, describes a massive effort to reproduce the main effect that underlies [the psychological theory of ego…
Read MoreIs There Or Is There Not a Replication Crisis in Psychology? That is the Question
[H/T to Retraction Watch for the material in this post] This past week, the journal Science published a study by Dan Gilbert, Gary King and others refuting the claims of Brian Nosek and the Reproducibility Project Psychology (RPP). The RPP…
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