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How Much Power Does the Average Social Science Study Have? Less Than You Think
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[Excerpts taken from the blog, “No, average statistical power is not as high as you think: Tracing a statistical error as it spreads through the literature”, by Andrew Gelman, posted at Statistical Modelling] “I was reading this recently published article by Sakaluk…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Andrew Gelman, Forking paths, John Ioannidis, Social Sciences, Statistical power
An Interview with Ted Miguel on “How To Do Open Science”
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[Excerpts taken from the article “Ted Miguel in conversation on “Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Science” by Isabelle Cohen and Hagit Caspi, posted at the website of the Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley] “Edward…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: BITSS, Garret Christensen, Jeremy Freese, Open Science, Reproducibility, Social Sciences, Ted Miguel
A Random Sampling of the State of Transparency and Reproducibility in Social Science Journals
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[From the preprint “An empirical assessment of transparency and reproducibility-related research practices in the social sciences (2014-2017)” by Tom Hardwicke, Joshua Wallach, Mallory Kidwell, & John Ioannidis posted at MetaArXiv Preprints] “In this study, we evaluated a broad range of…
Read MoreSurprise? Data Sharing in Social Sciences Lags Other Disciplines
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[From the article, “Effect of Impact Factor and Discipline on Journal Data Sharing Policies” by David Resnik et al., published in Accountability in Research] “…we coded … 447 journals … The breakdown was: 18.1% biological sciences, 18.8% clinical sciences, 21.7%…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Biological sciences, Data sharing, Journal policies, Reproducibility, Social Sciences
Power and Progress in Science
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[From the blog “The Persistence of False Paradigms in Low-Power Sciences” by Pascal Michaillat, posted on the BITSS website] “It is commonly believed that the lack of experimental evidence typical in the social sciences slows but does not prevent the…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: homophily, Low power, Model, Social Sciences, Statistical power, Theory selection, Thomas Kuhn
Changes in Open Science Practices Over Time in Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology
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[From a talk by Betsy Levy Paluck entitled “Open Science Practices are on the Rise Across Four Social Science Disciplines”, based on research with co-authors David Birke, Garret Christensen, Rebecca Littman, Ted Miguel, & Zenan Wang, presented at the annual meeting of BITSS]…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: BITSS, Open Science, Posting data and code, Pre-registration, Social Sciences, Trends
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