Behavioural Scientists Aren’t Just Wrong About How to Win Over Electorates to Crackpot Progressive Policies; Their Evident Contempt for the Masses Has Contributed to the Global Populist Revolt
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...they’ve placed too much faith in what has turned out to be really bad science.
A few years ago, I came across a cartoon that seemed to capture a particular aspect of scholarly journal publishing quite well…
The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a national peer-led consortium investigating the factors that contribute to robust…
My first experience attending a conference with Extrasensory Perception (ESP) researchers was in October 2012. Unexpectedly, we…
NOTE: This blog is a repost of one originally published at The Good Science Project (click here) Science is self-correcting—or…
The landscape of social-behavioral sciences, particularly psychology, underwent a significant transformation in the early 2010s.
Por Bruno Schaefer, Luiz Augusto Campos e Marcia Rangel Candido 1. Introdução Imagem: Swapnil Sharma. A partir deste ano, a…
By Bruno Schaefer, Luiz Augusto Campos, and Marcia Rangel Candido 1.
Money isn't just about numbers; it's about psychology. New research supports a longstanding tenet of behavioral economics.
In 2015, a big team of researchers tried to redo 100 psychology studies, and about 60% failed to replicate. This finding made…
A replicability crisis threatens computational science without shared code, data and methods from studies. A new replication…
If behavioral science is to contribute to solving complex global problems, it needs to address challenges in five areas.
In 2004 I was interviewed by Craig Newnes for The Psychologist, a journal published by the British Psychological Society. The…
For a decade, science has faced a replication crisis in that the results of many important studies are difficult or impossible…
This is Jessica. Today I start teaching a new seminar course I created to CS grad students at Northwestern, called Explanation…
From Clearer Thinking: “The field of academic psychology has been going through a ‘replication crisis’ for the last decade or so.
In a 2003 edition of Science, the editors declared that the identification of genes for “mental illness” was the second most…
A decade of meta science research on social science research has produced devastating results. While the movement towards open…
A landmark 1979 study found that depressed people had a more realistic view of their influence over events. New research calls…
By Stuart Buck
The Pillars of Biopsychiatry In a widely discussed July, 2022 analysis, psychiatrists Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Horowitz and…
The true causes and implications of the replication problem in science. The post Is There a Replication Crisis? first appeared…
En fin d’année dernière est sorti un article scientifique que j’attendais depuis quelques années. Il s’agit d’une entreprise de…
If you’re a graduate of economics, psychology, sociology, medicine, biostatistics, ecology, or related fields, you probably…
Wprowadzenie Powstanie i rozwój nauki to jeden z najważniejszych procesów w historii naszej cywilizacji. Dzięki nauce mamy…
Почему эксперименты онкобиологов воспроизводятся не лучше, чем у психологов
Mimicking a Scientist: Towards Automated Scientific DiscoveryHow to build a scientific discovery engine in 3 easy stepsPhoto by…
Researching honesty, plus a handy device for forecasting the weather and Unusual Alternative Measurement Units, in Feedback’s…
This post is by Research Data Management Advisor Karen…
Meta-analysis is a powerful and important tool to synthesize the literature about a research topic. Like other kinds of research…
Reproducibility is an essential feature of all scientific outcomes. Scientific evidence can only reach its true status as…
Immer mehr WissenschaftlerInnen lassen in sogenannten Registered Reports ihre Hypothesen und Methoden begutachten, bevor sie…
Научные статьи, результаты которых не воспроизводятся, чаще будут цитироваться , чем работы, которые воспроизводятся, в соответст…
Academics suspect papers with grabby conclusions are waved through more easily by reviewersScientific research findings that…
The replication crisis devastated psychology. This group is looking to rebuild it. The Psychological Science Accelerator…
by Plinio Cabrera Casarotto, PhD,Editor-in-Chief JRepNeurosciThe replicability of results is a cornerstone of science. We can…
This final instalment on the state of replications in economics, 2020 version, continues the discussion of how to define “replica…
This instalment follows on yesterday’s post where I addressed two questions: Are there more replications in economics than…
Summary: In 2015, an extensive psychology research project attempted to replicate the results of 100 prior studies; it…
Note from Jeremy: Behavioral ecologist Tim Parker had some very interesting comments on my recent post about replicability in…
Corona hat es deutlich gemacht: Forschung, die von einem offenen Austausch und internationaler Zusammenarbeit profitiert, ist…
[This article was first published on rOpenSci - open tools for open science, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can…
In support of recent efforts by social scientists to address the ‘reproducibility crisis’, the Journal of Development…
Fuente: ScienceUno de los elementos más valiosos con que debiera contar la comunidad científica es con la replicación sistemática…
Research…
A version of The Thinker displayed in Buenos…
[Excerpts taken from the article, “A journal club to fix science” by Amy Orben, published in Nature] “If science had generations…
Psychologue, psychanalyste, psychothérapeute, psychiatre… Clinique ou pas clinique… Que de psys ! Petite tentative d’expliquer…
Muchos son los tratamientos y enfoques con que se aborda la salud mental. A modo de ejemplo, podemos nombrar la terapia…
On 12 September we will be announcing the winners of this year's ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing. In this series of…
Can we trust the results of educational neuroscience studies? Read this post: Translating questionable research to the classroom
While the presence of publication bias – the selective publishing of positive studies – in science is well known, debate…
Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don…
El desmantelamiento de los estándares aceptados de evidencia estadística disminuirá la incertidumbre que los científicos tienen…
A new paper considers whether scientific research is really 'moving to a world beyond p
In July 2017, Economics: The Open Access, Open Assessment E-Journal issued a call for papers for a special issue on the…
“Replicability of findings is at the heart of any empirical science” (Asendorpf, Conner, De Fruyt, et al., 2013, p. 108) The…
[From the article “Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong” by Brian Resnick, published at Vox] “Juli…
By ANISH KOKA MD The day after NBC releases a story on a ‘ground-breaking’ observational study demonstrating caramel…
About 10 years ago, the economist Hoyt Bleakley published two important papers on the impact of health on wealth—more precisely…
La tecnología ha traído consigo herramientas que facilitan la transparencia de la presentación de informes científicos, la…
(tl;dr: Design features of psychology studies to avoid if you want to run a good study!)Imagine reading about a psychology…
Replicability is considered a hallmark of good scientific practice, an important post-publication quality check. But how many…
Four researchers associated with the former project EDaWaX have recently published a new research article entitled “Replication…
[This blog is based on the article “ Replication studies in economics—How many and which papers are chosen for replication, and…
From The New York Times: “A modeling study published in BMJ Open in 2014 showed that if a publication bias caused positive…
Replication is not only possible and desirable in the sciences, but also in the humanities. At least, so we have argued in a rece…
In debates on the validity of academic research findings, focus has been drawn to so-called questionable research practices…
Some scholars have claimed that replication – the independent repetition of an earlier study, answering the same study question…
Replication seems a sensible way to assess whether a scientific result is right. The intuition is clear: if a result is right…
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2018, The New York Times Company). When we think of biases in…
[From the article “Why Economics Is Having a Replication Crisis” by Noah Smith, published at http://www.bloomberg.com] “By now…
A new report published in Nature has shed some light on the nature of the so-called “replicability crisis” in psychology and…
A researcher showed people a picture of The Thinker in an effort to study the link between analytical thinking and religious…
[Below is a guest post by Matt Goldrick on behalf of the Linguistic Society of America] Over the past decade the lack of…
Creating new knowledge is the central driver of science. But we’re so obsessed with newness that we don’t spend enough time…
New reporting guidelines for randomized controlled trials of social and psychological interventions published today. Randomized…
Academic medical institutions, when hiring or promoting faculty who they hope will move science forward in impactful ways, are…
Over at ICCI are a couple of blog posts by Olivier Morin about project I’m involved in, the Color Game. The first post provides…
The negative consequences of relying too heavily on metrics to assess research quality are well known, potentially fostering…
A common theme I see on my weekly visits to Twitter is the hordes piling onto the latest psychological study or effect that hasn…
Neeta Goel, with inputs from Benjamin DK Wood, Marie Gaarder and Sayak…
In Merchants of Doubt, Eric Conway and Naomi Oreskes describe how…
Over the past few years, Nature has published editorials extolling the virtues of replication, concluding in one that “We…
[From the article, “Hundreds of Researchers Are Trying to Replicate High-Profile Psychology Studies” by Stephanie M. Lee in Buzzf…
Tired of flashy research that fails to hold up, psychologists around the world are taking it upon themselves to re-do…
People who score higher on intelligence tests tend to have larger brains. Twin studies suggest the same genetic factors…
Like many biology profs, Meghan often starts class by talking for a few minutes about the “organism of the day“, as a way to…
The replication problem is not as bad as the sensational reporting has suggested. But it is still a legitimate issue that needs…
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the…
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in The Conversation. It was also picked up by the National Post.
In the next couple of months I shall, in preparation for an invited longer review essay on recent books on BE, post reviews of…
A review of past research has found that subjects respond differently to male and female testers
Methodologists had an interesting summer this past year, thanks in part to a bombshell paper by Benjamin and 71 others, shared…