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Special Issue on How to Improve Replication in the Social Sciences
The journal International Studies Perspective has a collection of articles that address various dimensions of replication in the social sciences, in general, and the field of international relations, in particular. An interesting proposal comes from an article by MICHAEL COLARESI, who…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Atlantic (19 February 2016)
(FROM THE ARTICLE “Psychology’s Replication Crisis Has a Silver Lining”) The author, a prominent professor of psychology at Yale University, argues that not all is gloom and doom. Some failures to replicate are due to noise swamping signal. Other failures to replicate…
Read MoreForget Impact Factors. How About a Replicability index?
[From the website The Edge] The question is: “What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?” Stanford Associate Professor BRIAN KNUTSON’s answer is: “Replication.” He suggests that a more meaningful measure of positive scientific impact is a Replication Index, or “r-factor.” This would…
Read MoreThe Economist Writes About Replications AGAIN!
Replications are hot. Don’t believe me, just read The Economist. This is the third story related to scientific reliability/replications this past month. To read more, click here.
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Economist (23 January 2016)
(FROM THE ARTICLE “All at sea: Ideological divisions in economics undermine its value to the public“): “Sifting out the guff requires transparency, argued John Cochrane of the University of Chicago in another recent blog post. Too many academics keep their data and…
Read MoreMICHELE NUIJTEN: The Replication Paradox
Lately, there has been a lot of attention for the excess of false positive and exaggerated findings in the published scientific literature. In many different fields there are reports of an impossibly high rate of statistically significant findings, and studies…
Read MoreJOHN COCHRANE: Secret Data
(REPOST FROM JOHN COCHRANE’S BLOG, THE GRUMPY ECONOMIST) On replication in economics. Just in time for bar-room discussions at the annual meetings. “I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” –Fermat…
Read MoreSo Your Research Can’t Be Replicated? No Worries
In a recent article published in the online journal PLOS ONE, ADAM FETTERMAN and KAI SASSENBERG collected survey data in which research scientists were asked to evaluate a number of scenarios regarding replication. They conclude that, “Our data suggests that…
Read MoreSo You Want to Learn How to Do a Replication?
(FROM THE BITSS WEBSITE) The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences will be holding a workshop on replication and transparency following the AEA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. “Topics will include teaching integrity in empirical research, replication of…
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