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Guest post by Quan-Hoang Vuong of Centre for Interdisciplinary Social Research, Western University Hanoi…
Guest post by Quan-Hoang Vuong of Centre for Interdisciplinary Social Research, Western University Hanoi…
Science’s credibility crisis is making headlines once more thanks to a paper from John P. A. Ioannidis and co-authors. Ioannidis…
By John Borghi and Daniella…
How should we evaluate initial claims of a scientific discovery? Here’s is a new idea: Only P-values less than 0.005 should be…
Justin Esarey writes: This Friday, October 27th at noon Eastern time, the International Methods Colloquium will host a…
The leading principle of open science is that anyone, whether they are part of the research community or the public, should be…
By Eglantine…
Science and Nature are, for better or worse, often regarded as the pinnacle of scientific achievement. Unfortunately for I/O…
The post Go Forth and Replicate: On Creating Incentives for Repeat Studies appeared first on Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
In a paper forthcoming in Nature Human Behavior (I think it is still “in press”), a large
At the very beginning of my career in research I conducted a study which involved asking college students to smile, frown, and…
At the very beginning of my career in research I conducted a study which involved asking college students to smile, frown, and…
I've just read a new book that MT readers would benefit from reading as well. It's Rigor Mortis, by Richard Harris (2017…
Joanna Diong writes for us this month. Jo is a faculty member at Sydney University where she investigates muscle activity (EMG…
Rarely do esoteric academic debates, especially those concerning methodology, make their way into the popular press. But, for…
. Having discussed the “p-values overstate the evidence against the null fallacy” many times over the past few years, I leave…
Recently, there have been a great deal of debates revolving around research progress and impact across certain areas of science.
This reading list is a balance to the one-dimensional view in many popular books, TED talks, or conferences. For those who feel…
0000-0002-4592-9214As we celebrate PLOS ONE’s ten year anniversary, we continue our commitment to uphold rigorous standards for…
By: Elizabeth Gilbert, The Medical University of South Carolina and Katie Corker, Grand Valley State University What is “open…
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2017, The New York Times Company) A few years back, scientists at…
By Alex…
The conference boasted an impressive line-up of keynote speakers. The ‘father of’ positive psychology Martin Seligman (Universi…
James M. Sherlock in Psychology Today: This might sound like nothing new if you’ve kept up with the replication crisis, but I’m…
A new initiative makes scientific paper citations open to everyone, for free. The post Tearing Down Science's Citation Paywall…
Here's a common puzzle that comes up all the time in discussions of replication in psychology. I call it the stimulus…
Over the past few years, scientists have grown increasingly concerned about the lack of research reproducibility in the…
Many scientific studies cannot be replicated and this is symptomatic of a wider crisis in basic research, say scientists.
Next time someone asks you “Are men and women’s brains different?”, you can answer, without hesitation, “Yes”. Not only do they…
Article by Vidya Ayer, Cord Wiljes, Philipp Cimiano, CITEC, Bielefeld University; Christian Pietsch, Johanna Vompras, Jochen…
Guest blog from the LSE Behavioural Research…
--> Replication studies have been much in the news lately, particularly in the field of psychology, where a great deal…
Regehr C, Glancy D, Pitts A. Interventions to reduce stress in university students: A review and meta-analysis. Journal of…
By Ben…
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Peer review publications remain a key stage in the quality assurance of new research, but some comments can be the stuff of…
A cautionary…
Over at our sister site, Econlog, Bryan Caplan has a post explaining why he hates politics. The problem is the way politics…
Last week, well-known Stanford scientist John Ioannidis and his colleague Denes Szucs released a new analysis online. They…
Jednym ze zjawisk nabardziej wypaczających obraz nauki jest tak zwany efekt szuflady, który znany będzie każdemu badaczowi…
The reproducibility crisis! It’s shaking the very foundations of the ivory tower. Reportedly the psychology wing is already in…
By now, you’ve probably heard of the replication crisis in science. In summary, many conclusions from experiments done in a…
En 2006, unos investigadores del MD Anderson Cancer Center de Houston (Texas, EEUU) quisieron desarrollar experimentalmente…
A presentation to the 2016 ISMTE US Conference. Something of a "state of our industry" overview, or perhaps, everything I…
Is there a reproducibility crisis in science? A recent news feature published in Nature is only the latest piece to suggest…
After getting preliminaries out of the way in the first class for Graduate Seminar: Environmental Science, today’s class…
There’s been a lot of discussion on social media of a recent paper in PNAS by Anders Eklund, Tom Nichols, and Hans Knutsson.Clust…
Modern psychology is apparently in crisis. This claim is nothing new. From phrenology to psychoanalysis, psychology has…
Modern psychology is apparently in crisis. This claim is nothing new. From phrenology to psychoanalysis, psychology has…
In celebration of the third anniversary of this blog, I'm collecting some of my posts on reproducibility. I didn't initially…
(tl;dr: I argue that the only way to tell if a replication study was successful is by considering the theory that motivated the…
I first encountered statistics in my AP Statistics class when I was 16 years old; I remember a particular lecture where we…
Psychological science is surprisingly difficult to replicate (Open Science Collaboration, 2015). Researchers are desperate to…
Psychological science is surprisingly difficult to replicate (Open Science Collaboration, 2015). Researchers are desperate to…
Background factors such as culture, location, population, or time of day affect the success rates of replication experiments, a…
Below is the text of my presentation to the Sydney Behavioural Economics and Behavioural Science Meetup on 11 May 2016. The…
I've been blogging critically about the state of scientific publishing since my very first post 9 years ago. In particular, I've…
The scientific community's growing eagerness to make research data available to the public provides libraries -- with our…
The replicability of psychological research is surprisingly low. Why? In this blog post I present new evidence showing that…
The replicability of psychological research is surprisingly low. Why? In this blog post I present new evidence showing that…
The way science is currently funded is very controversial. During the last 6 months I was on a break from my PhD and worked…
The way science is currently funded is very controversial. During the last 6 months I was on a break from my PhD and worked…
Dodgy results are fuelling flawed policy decisions and undermining medical advances. They could even make us lose faith in…
We all know replicability is a problem – consistently, many papers in various fields fail to replicate when put to the test.
Recently projects have been developed with the aim to reproduce published research results in psychology, biology and economics…
Recently projects have been developed with the aim to reproduce published research results in psychology, biology and economics…
Colin Camerer and colleagues recently published a Science article on the replicability of behavioural economics. ‘It appears…
Colin Camerer and colleagues recently published a Science article on the replicability of behavioural economics. ‘It appears…
As the old adage has it, before it gets better it will get worse. I have previously written about the deepening sense of crisis…
Today John Ioannidis visited the Broad Institute and gave a talk entitled “Meta-research: where do we stand in research on…
Why is a surprising amount of psychological research unreplicable? Psychology calls itself a science but often falls short on…
Why is a surprising amount of psychological research unreplicable? Psychology calls itself a science but often falls short on…
Last year, a widely reported paper in Science found that less than half of published research in top, peer-reviewed psychology…
The…
Back in August, the Open Science Collaboration published an article in Science with some alarming findings about the state of…
New studies have intensified the debate over psychology’s “reproducibility" problems. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientists have been abuzz over a report in last week’s Science questioning the results of a recent landmark effort to…
The other night I was watching a Dateline episode on a false confession that landed someone in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.
Nearly 20 years ago, psychologists Roy Baumeister and Dianne Tice, a married couple at Case Western Reserve University, devised…
When you have a research project — the Open Science Collaboration (OSC) — that includes 270 scientists working on breakthrough…
The Müller-Lyer illusion: a highly reproducible effect.
A bit less than a year ago, in one of the biggest events in psychology in recent memory, a group of researchers published the…
Approximately six out of 10 economics studies published in the field’s most reputable journals — American Economic Review and…
Why did you become a scientist? I bet it had more to do with curiosity or a passion for discovery than for a love of self-promoti…
Steps associate editors could take to reduce journal’s emission of faulty science. Night staff at the Mustang…
It does work. But it’s super tricky. The Planet Money podcast did a terrific episode about science’s file drawer effect, and…
SPECIALE DICEMBRE – Inserire tra le scoperte più sorprendenti dell’anno uno dei più duri colpi inflitti all’attendibilità di…
The field of psychology is diverse and large — the American Psychological Association alone has divisions representing more than …
En odontologíaAmamantar protege contra la cariesAun tenemos poca evidencia para identificar el riesgo de cariesLos sellantes…
Editor's Note: This is the third year I'm making a list of awesome things other people did this year. Just like the lists for…
Editor’s Note: This is the third year I’m making a list of awesome things other people did this year. Just like the lists for…
Today the Australian Research Council has announced their 2016 Future Fellows, and among them is QAEco associate Fiona Fidler.
Hay un concepto fundamental en cualquier trabajo científico que se precie: la reproducibilidad. Esta propiedad es inherente al…
John Jerrim and Robert de Vries argue a radical overhaul is needed of how social science is published and produced for it to…
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Most psychology findings are not replicable. What can be done? In his Psychological Science editorial, Stephen Lindsay…
Most psychology findings are not replicable. What can be done? In his Psychological Science editorial, Stephen Lindsay…
They might not be exactly identical, but shouldn’t they at least taste the same?A sense of crisis is developing in economics…
Replication and confirmation are indispensable concepts that help define scientific facts. However, the way in which we reach…