You all might find an article published on the Five Thirty Eight website (link http://fivethirtyeight.com) useful when talking about this issue with students. The article includes a very nice interactive demonstration of p-hacking that I think will help students to understand that concept. Beyond that, the article takes a balanced approach to the problems of replicability, the growth in the number of journal articles being published, fraud and other related topics. The title is Science Isn't Broken by , Christie Aschwanden. Here is the link http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/
Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------- Dennis M Goff Charles A Dana Professor of Psychology Chair Department of Psychology Office: (434) 947-8547 Randolph College Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891 2500 Rivermont Avenue Lynchburg, VA 24503 www.randolphcollege.edu<http://www.randolphcollege.edu/> From: Rick Froman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 2:17 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <[email protected]> Subject: RE:[tips] PSYC failed the replication test It is true that we only got a D+ :( but 68% is quite a bit higher :) than some of the estimates of reproducibility I have heard bandied about (which are close to zero). Rick Dr. Rick Froman<http://bit.ly/16z4vcd> Professor of Psychology Box 3519 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (479) 524-7295 From: Wuensch, Karl Louis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 12:59 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [tips] PSYC failed the replication test This article is going on the reading list for my grad students in stats. Once we have covered power and publication biases this article should, I hope, lead to some lively discussion. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716 Cheers, ________________________________ [East Carolina University]<http://www.ecu.edu/> Karl L. Wuensch, Professor and ECU Scholar/Teacher, Dept. of Psychology East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353, USA, Earth<http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/Earth.htm> Associate Editor, Society & Animals Voice: 252-328-9420 Fax: 252-328-6283 http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=46469 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-46469-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-46469-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13169.2bfd597f06c032f81efb35e857e2dd91&n=T&l=tips&o=46470 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-46470-13169.2bfd597f06c032f81efb35e857e2d...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-46470-13169.2bfd597f06c032f81efb35e857e2d...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- 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=46472 or send a blank email to leave-46472-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
