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On the Reproducibility of Psychological Science: A Response from Nosek and Gilbert

[From an article in Retraction Watch] “Scientists have been abuzz over a report in last week’s Science questioning the results of a recent landmark effort to replicate 100 published studies in top psychology journals. The critique of this effort – which suggested…

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The American Statistical Association Wants to Change the Way We Use p-values

[From an article at Retraction Watch] “After reading too many papers that either are not reproducible or contain statistical errors (or both), the American Statistical Association (ASA) has been roused to action. Today the group released six principles for the use…

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REBLOG: The Reformation: Can Social Scientists Save Themselves?

We recently came across this article in the May/June 2014 issue of Pacific Standard magazine.  Okay.  It’s not “new”, but it provides an excellent historical overview of some of the issues associated with reproducibility of social science research.  WARNING: It…

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Retraction Watch Publishes a “Leaderboard” of Top Retractors

The website Retraction Watch is approaching it’s 5th birthday.  Among other things, it publishes a “leaderboard” where they keep track of researchers with the most retractions. The leaderboard lists a Top 30 list of researchers, with links to the individual cases….

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