Open Science

Social Sciences Research Methods Centre Replication Workshop

This workshop will introduce students to the process of reproducing published work. Replicating other scholars’ work is an essential tool for becoming familiar with methods, learning to select suitable models, and getting a chance to publish early …

Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Perspectives on Robust and Reliable Science

A paper about social, behavioural economic perspective on reproducible science

Star wars: The empirics strike back

Using 50,000 tests published in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained solely by journals favoring rejection of the null hypothesis. We observe a two-humped camel shape with missing …

Statistical Procedures and the Justification of Knowledge in Psychological Science

Justification, in the vernacular language of philosophy of science, refers to the evaluation, defense, and confirmation of claims of truth. In this article, we examine some aspects of the rhetoric of justification, which in part draws on statistical …

Strong inference

certain systematic methods of scientific thinking may produce much more rapid progress than others.

Study Preregistration: An Evaluation of a Method for Transparent Reporting

Study preregistration promotes transparency in scientific research by making a clear distinction between a priori and post hoc procedures or analyses. Management and applied psychology have not embraced preregistration in the way other closely …

Teaching and Mentoring Open Science

A syllabi about mentoring and teaching open science

Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data

A paper about ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data

The 52 symptoms of major depression: Lack of content overlap among seven common depression scales

Depression severity is assessed in numerous research disciplines, ranging from the social sciences to genetics, and used as a dependent variable, predictor, covariate, or to enroll participants. The routine practice is to assess depression severity …

The Baby Factory: Difficult Research Objects, Disciplinary Standards, and the Production of Statistical Significance

Science studies scholars have shown that the management of natural complexity in lab settings is accomplished through a mixture of technological standardization and tacit knowledge by lab workers. Yet these strategies are not available to researchers …