Reproducibility Crisis and Credibility Revolution

Stereotype threat

A podcast about stereotype threat and replication

Strong inference

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

Teaching and Mentoring Open Science

A syllabi about mentoring and teaching open science

Teaching replication

Replication is held as the gold standard for ensuring the reliability of published scientific literature. But conducting direct replications is expensive, time-consuming, and unrewarded under current publication practices. So who will do them? Our …

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 Amazing Significo: why researchers need to understand poker

A post that describes significance values

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 …

The Black Goat

Three psychologists talk about doing science. Hosted by Sanjay Srivastava, Alexa Tullett, and Simine Vazire.

The Chrysalis Effect: How Ugly Initial Results Metamorphosize Into Beautiful Articles

The issue of a published literature not representative of the population of research is most often discussed in terms of entire studies being suppressed. However, alternative sources of publication bias are questionable research practices (QRPs) that …