Replication

Funking Up the Domain: How Outliers Skew Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Business and Management INK
June 24, 2022

Funking Up the Domain: How Outliers Skew Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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What Does It Mean If the Public is Decent at Predicting Replication?
Research
October 5, 2020

What Does It Mean If the Public is Decent at Predicting Replication?

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Excerpt from ‘What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It’
International Debate
September 17, 2020

Excerpt from ‘What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It’

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The Marshmallow Study Revisited: Does Our Willpower Increase Our Likelihood of Achievement?
Insights
August 28, 2020

The Marshmallow Study Revisited: Does Our Willpower Increase Our Likelihood of Achievement?

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Using Prediction Markets to Forecast Replication Across Fields

Using Prediction Markets to Forecast Replication Across Fields

In 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?’

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The Virtue of Checking Documentation: You Never Know What You Will Find

The Virtue of Checking Documentation: You Never Know What You Will Find

New 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.

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A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis

A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis

The 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.

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NAS Takes Detailed Look at Reproducibility and Replicability

NAS Takes Detailed Look at Reproducibility and Replicability

This 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.

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DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

The 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.

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Three Views on Addressing the ‘Reproducibility Crisis’

Three Views on Addressing the ‘Reproducibility Crisis’

A 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.

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Good Replication Standards Start With the Data

Good Replication Standards Start With the Data

How 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.

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Can We Replicate the Reported Crisis in Psychology?

Can We Replicate the Reported Crisis in Psychology?

The 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.

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