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REED: The Replication Crisis – A Single Replication Can Make a Big Difference
[This post is based on the paper, “A Primer on the ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ and Ways to Fix It” by the author] In a previous post, I argued that lowering α from 0.05 to 0.005, as advocated by Benjamin et al….
Read MoreMURPHY: Quantifying the Role of Research Misconduct in the Failure to Replicate
[NOTE: This blog is based on the article “HARKing: How Badly Can Cherry-Picking and Question Trolling Produce Bias in Published Results?” by Kevin Murphy and Herman Aguinis, recently published in the Journal of Business and Psychology.] The track record for…
Read MoreREED: Why Lowering Alpha to 0.005 is Unlikely to Help
[This blog is based on the paper, “A Primer on the ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ and Ways to Fix It” by the author] A standard research scenario is the following: A researcher is interested in knowing whether there is a relationship between…
Read MoreHow to Fix the “Reproducibility Crisis”? Three Solutions
[From the article “The science ‘reproducibility crisis’ — and what can be done about it” from the website theconversation.com.] “Reproducibility is the idea that an experiment can be repeated by another scientist and they will get the same result. It is…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: BBC (February 22, 2017)
[From the article “Most scientists can’t replicate studies by their peers” from the BBC/News/Science&Environment website] “Science is facing a “reproducibility crisis” where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, research suggests. This is frustrating…
Read MoreA Timeline of the Reproducibility Crisis in Science
[From the blog, “Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability” by Hilda Bastian at her PLoS blogsite, Absolutely Maybe] “It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in…
Read MoreOn the Reproducibility Crisis in….Microbiology?
From obscure to ubiquitous, the reproducibility crisis is now headline news everywhere. In a blog by American Society of Microbiology (ASM) CEO Stefano Bertuzzi entitled, “ASM Addresses the Reproducibility Crisis in New Academy Report”, 6 areas were highlighted for “restoring rigor…
Read MoreWhat’s In a Name? When It Comes to “Reproducibility”, Apparently a Lot
[From the article “Muddled meanings hamper efforts to fix reproducibility crisis” in Nature] “A semantic confusion is clouding one of the most talked-about issues in research. Scientists agree that there is a crisis in reproducibility, but they can’t agree on what ‘reproducibility’…
Read MoreSurvey in Nature Reports on How Scientists View the “Reproducibility Crisis”
From the article “1500 Scientists lift the lid on reproducibility” published in Nature: “More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. Those are some of…
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