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ALL INVITED: Workshop on Reproducibility and Integrity in Scientific Research
DATE: Friday 26 October. PLACE: University of Canterbury, Business School, Meremere, Room 236, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND REGISTRATION (important for catering purposes): email to tom.coupe@canterbury.ac.nz COST: Nada ($0) Supported by the University of Canterbury Business School Research Committee. OVERVIEW: There is more…
Read MoreAnd How Are Things Going In Political Science?
[From the working paper “Why Too Many Political Science Findings Cannot be Trusted and What We Can Do About It” by Alexander Wuttke, posted at SocArXiv Papers] “…this article reviewed the meta-scientific evidence with a focus on the quantitative political science…
Read MoreVASISHTH: The Statistical Significance Filter Leads To Overoptimistic Expectations of Replicability
[This blog draws on the article “The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability”, authored by Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena A. Jäger, and Andrew Gelman, published in the Journal of Memory and Language, 103, 151-175, 2018. An open…
Read MoreSignificant Effects From Low-Powered Studies Will Be Overestimates
[From the article, “The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability” by Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena Jäger, and Andrew Gelman, published in the Journal of Memory and Language] Highlights: “When low-powered studies show significant effects, these will…
Read MoreReproducibility. You Can Do This.
[From the paper, “Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability” by Michele Nuijten, forthcoming in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology] “Several large-scale problems are affecting the validity and reproducibility of scientific research. … Many of the suggested solutions are…
Read MoreA Unified Framework for Quantifying Scientific Credibility?
[From the abstract of the paper, “A Unified Framework to Quantify the Credibility of Scientific Findings”, by Etienne LeBel, Randy McCarthy, Brian Earp, Malte Elson, and Wolf Vanpaemel, published in the journal, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science] “…we…
Read MoreOh No! Not Zebra Finches Too!
[From the article, “Replication Failures Highlight Biases in Ecology and Evolution Science” by Yao-Hua Law, published at http://www.the-scientist.com%5D “As robust efforts fail to reproduce findings of influential zebra finch studies from the 1980s, scientists discuss ways to reduce bias in such…
Read MoreMaking Replications Mainstream: It Takes a Research Community
Just in case you missed it, the latest issue of Behavioral and Brain Sciences includes an article by Rolf Zwaan, Alexander Etz, Richard Lucas, and Brent Donnellan entitled “Making Replications Mainstream”. It is something of a tour-de-force by four prominent…
Read MoreSolving the Replication Crisis: Audits Would Help
[From the article “Randomly auditing research labs could be an affordable way to improve research quality: A simulation study” by Adrian Barnett, Pauline Zardo, and Nicholas Graves, published at PLoS One] “The “publish or perish” incentive drives many researchers to increase the…
Read MoreRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Calls for Replications To Be a “Normal Part of Science”
[From the article “Make replication studies a normal part of science,” posted at the website of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences] “The systematic replication of other researchers’ work should be a normal part of science. That is the…
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