Why students are the answer to psychology's replication crisis

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Summary:

"...Researchers have proposed many ideas and recommendations for reforming research with the goal of improvement. Journals and granting agencies are demanding more from authors with respect to openness and transparency. There are accessible online repositories, such as Github, the Open Science Framework and OpenDOAR, that allow researchers to share their raw materials, exact protocols, scripts, data, code, etc. with anyone who has an internet connection. The aim is to essentially have nothing concealed in the scientific process.

Some journals, such as Psychological Science, and recently American Psychological Association journals are encouraging authors to store their data and code in these repositories and to disclose details about data collection decisions before submitting a manuscript for peer review. Researchers can also preregister their hypotheses. But something has been missing...."

Link:

http://theconversation.com/why-students-are-the-answer-to-psychologys-replication-crisis-90286

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Date tagged:

02/22/2018, 18:17

Date published:

02/22/2018, 13:17