>From the "Chronicle of Higher Education": |If you’re a psychologist, the news has to make you a little |nervous—particularly if you’re a psychologist who published |an article in 2008 in any of these three journals: Psychological |Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, |or the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, |and Cognition. | |Because, if you did, someone is going to check your work. |A group of researchers have already begun what they’ve |dubbed the Reproducibility Project, which aims to replicate |every study from those three journals for that one year. The |project is part of Open Science Framework, a group interested |in scientific values, and its stated mission is to “estimate the |reproducibility of a sample of studies from the scientific literature.” |This is a more polite way of saying “We want to see how |much of what gets published turns out to be bunk.”
For more, see: http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/is-psychology-about-to-come-undone/29045 The issues include the "file drawer" problem and the "decline effect". And maybe the meta-analysis of Type I errors. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=17370 or send a blank email to leave-17370-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
