Replicability and archiving of geological samples
In Nature this week, Noah Planavsky and coworkers, including the present director of the National Museum of Natural History, Kirk Johnson, have an opinion pi...
All posts tagged with replication crisis
Legacy of a candidate gene and replication in genomics
During the 1990s and early 2000s, many human geneticists and other scientists (especially psychologists) tried to study the genetics of human traits by follo...
Why won’t Science publish replication studies?
An article in Slate by Kevin Arceneaux and coworkers recounts their experiences trying to publish a replication of a high-profile psychology study in Science...
Should people lay off social psychologists with unreplicable ideas?
Pardis Sabeti has written an op/ed for the Boston Globe addressing the scientific casualties of the “replication crisis” in social psychology: “For better sc...
Misuse of statistics
This essay should be required reading for graduate students: “The problem with p-values”. David Colquhoun writes extensively about science and statistics, an...
Link: A comment on replicability by a psychologist
Joe Simmons on psychology: “What I Want Our Field To Prioritize”.
Link: Replication crisis and status competition in psychology
The ongoing “replication crisis” in psychology has become an interesting study in the sociology of science. I don’t have anything especially deep to say abou...