Skip to content

Berkeley Initiative for
Transparency in the Social Sciences

  • Home
  • About
    • Mission
    • People
    • Partners
    • Institutional Support
    • Supporters
    • Get Updates
  • Evidence
    • Events
    • Open Policy Analysis
    • Research Library
    • BITSS Scholars
    • SSMART Grants
  • Education
    • Workshops
    • RT2
    • Catalysts
    • MOOC
    • Textbook
  • Ecosystem
    • Social Science Reproduction Platform
    • Social Science Prediction Platform
    • MetaArxiv
    • Scholarly Communication
    • Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes
  • Resources

Introduction to research transparency and the scientific ethos

In our first activity, I’ll discuss the structure of the rest of the course and introduce you to Merton’s norms – widely held values for conducting science.

1.1 Let’s get started!

1.2 Merton’s norms and the Scientific Ethos

1.3 How closely do we conform to Merton’s norms?

Top Pages

  • Home
  • Merton's norms and the Scientific Ethos
  • A replication example: The Many Labs Project
  • Replication Wiki
  • P-Curve: A tool for detecting publication bias
  • BITSS Annual Meeting 2026

Contact us

207 Giannini Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
ucbitss@berkeley.edu