Meta-science

Is the replicability crisis overblown? Three arguments explained.

Originally at https://metascience.shaunagm.net/post/40612762034/is-the-replicability-crisis-overblown-three-arguments-explained

Back in November, Perspectives on Psychological Science put outa special issue on replicability.  I’ll be attempting to summarize each of the articles in that issue for this tumblr.  See this post for links to all article summaries, or use this tag to browse.

Summary of Is the Replicability Crisis Overblown? Three Arguments Examined by H. Pashler and C. Harris.

This paper addresses three common arguments made by those who would dismiss the idea of a replicability crisis.

First, some argue that the field’s standard requirement that a published study be significant to an alpha level of p