Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
September 23, 2019
NAS Takes Detailed Look at Reproducibility and Replicability
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Replication in Humanities Just as Desirable as in Sciences
Some scholars claim that replication, in the humanities, is not possible. The reasoning is that the humanities search for cultural meaning that can yield multiple valid answers since research objects are people and interactive entities. This may be true but it does not automatically follow that replication is not possible. Its a desirable feature for studies in the humanities to be replicable.
A Remedy for Broken Science, Or an Attempt to Undercut It?
A report from the National Association of Scholars takes on the reproducibility crisis in science. Not everyone views the group’s motives as pure.
Addressing Reproducibility in Archaeology: Our Three-Pronged Approach
Replication and reproducibility have been big issues in medicine and psychology and economics, but les talked about in fields like archaeology. Here, Ben Marwick and Zenobia Jacobs discuss their latest paper’s reproducibility strategy and its tactics during fieldwork, labwork and data analysis.
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.
We Found Only a Third of Top-Drawer Psych Studies Reliable
A small but vocal contingent of researchers has maintained that many, perhaps most, published studies are wrong. But how bad is this problem, exactly? And what features make a study more or less likely to turn out to be true? A team of 270 researchers asked the question of published psychology studies.
Statistics’ Crisis of Reproducibility
After Big Data, one of the most controversial topics in statistics workshop is the problem of reproducibility in scientific research.
