Harsh scrutiny of an influential political science experiment highlights the importance of transparency in research. The paper, from UCLA graduate student Michael LaCour and Columbia University Professor Donald Green, was published in Science in December 2014. It asserted that short conversations with gay canvassers could not only change people’s minds on a divisive social issue like same-sex…
Data Access and Research Transparency Panel @ APSA 2014
Join the BITSS co-sponsored panel Implementing Data Access and Research Transparency: Multiple Challenges, Multiple Perspectives at the upcoming meeting of the American Political Science Association (August 27-31, 2014 — Washington, DC). Chairs: Colin Elman, Syracuse University Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reproducibility Pioneers: Political Scientists Assigning Replications to Students
“We shouldn’t tell people to do whatever their moms tell them to do”
Kevin Esterling, Perspective from Political Science (II) This is the fifth post of a video series in which we ask leading social science academics and experts to discuss research transparency in their discipline. The interview was recorded on December 13, 2013 at the University of California, Berkeley.
"We shouldn't tell people to do whatever their moms tell them to do"
Kevin Esterling, Perspective from Political Science (II) This is the fifth post of a video series in which we ask leading social science academics and experts to discuss research transparency in their discipline. The interview was recorded on December 13, 2013 at the University of California, Berkeley.
“I would like to see us demonstrating by example the value of this form of science”
Don Green, Perspective from Political Science This is the second post of a video series in which we ask leading social science academics and experts to discuss research transparency in their discipline. The interview was recorded on December 13, 2013 at the University of California, Berkeley.
"I would like to see us demonstrating by example the value of this form of science"
Don Green, Perspective from Political Science This is the second post of a video series in which we ask leading social science academics and experts to discuss research transparency in their discipline. The interview was recorded on December 13, 2013 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Replication in Political Science
Here is a new initiative seeking to promote replications of quantitative work in political science. The group of researchers behind this project aims to create a site that will publish and organize replications done by graduate students in their courses — by which they mean the exercise of conducting re-analyses using the original data/code, as well…
Git/GitHub, Transparency, and Legitimacy in Quantitative Research
Reblogged from The Political Methodologist. A complete research project hosted on GitHub is reproducible and transparent by default in a more comprehensive manner than a typical journal mandated replication archive […] Maintaining your research project on GitHub confers advantages beyond the social desireability of the practice and the the technical benefits of using…