What Does It Mean If the Public is Decent at Predicting Replication?
With replication – and concerns about the lack of it – occupying much of the discussion about social and behavioral […]
2 years agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
With replication – and concerns about the lack of it – occupying much of the discussion about social and behavioral […]
2 years agoAlvaro de Menard, which we accept as the nom de blog of a non-academic “independent researcher of dubious nature” and […]
2 years agoSince the inception of the discipline of psychology, a number of psychological studies have caught the imagination of a global […]
2 years agoIn a paper published by Royal Society Open Science, a team of researchers ask a more detailed question of the process, “Are replication rates the same across academic fields?’
2 years agoNew revelations about the influential ‘Being Sane in Insane Places’ experiment by David Rosenhan provide a valuable lesson for other social scientists. You never know what you will find once you begin fact-checking sources against available documentation.
2 years agoThe Psychological Science Accelerator is a global network of more than 500 labs in more than 70 countries which aims to re-do older psychology experiments, but on a mass-scale in several different settings. The effort is one of many targeting a problem that has plagued the discipline for years: the inability of psychologists to get consistent results across similar experiments.
2 years agoThis Tuesday at 9 a.m., the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will be hosting a national symposium in response to the 200-page report: Reproducibility and Replicability in Science. The symposium will feature discussions on actions taken or contemplated in response to the report’s findings. Learn more or find out how to watch live.
3 years agoThe U.S. military’s innovation incubator, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has signed the Center for Open Science to create a research claims database as DARPA’s first step to assign a ‘credibility score’ to social and behavioral science research.
3 years agoA survey by Nature found that 52 percent of researchers believed there was a ‘significant reproducibility crisis’ and 38 percent said there was a ‘slight crisis.’ Here, three experts give their views on the issue.
5 years agoHow can we create reliable and replicable political science data? A recent article in the ‘American Political Science Review’ focuses on text analysis and suggests ways to make these data sound and reproducible.
6 years agoThe problems associated with modern psychology are longstanding and cultural, with researchers, reviewers, editors, journals and news-media all prioritizing and benefiting from the quest for novelty, says Keith Laws.
6 years agoA sense of crisis is developing in economics after two Federal Reserve economists came to the alarming conclusion that economics research is usually not replicable.
7 years ago