The end of an error. Kind of.
I missed this paper when it went around last week: The prevalence of statistical reporting errors in psychology (1985–2013). Daniel Lakens has a very good review of it.
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I missed this paper when it went around last week: The prevalence of statistical reporting errors in psychology (1985–2013). Daniel Lakens has a very good review of it.
A post at Retraction Watch summarizes the situation:
Perspectives on Psychological Science recently came out with a special issue on replicability in psychology research and its implications for the reliability and health of the field as a whole. They cite as motivation the last two years, which have been filled with fraud, admissions of questionable research practices, a published paper in a major paper claiming evidence of ESP, reports that researchers cannot or will not share data or disclose the full extent of their analyses, and the failure to replicate several major findings in the field.
Stapel Report
Reproducibility Project
Contradicted and Initially Stronger Effects in Highly Cited Clinical Research
The decline effect and the scientific method
If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source.
Solutions: Dryad Data Repository