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MOOC: Transparent and Open Social Science Research

  • Week 1: Introduction
  • Week 2: Publication Bias
  • Week 3: Pre-Registration, Pre-Analysis Plans, and Meta-Analysis
  • Week 4: Replication and Open Data
  • Week 5: Data Visualization

MOOC: Week 1

  • Introduction to research transparency and the scientific ethos
    • Lets get started!
    • Merton’s norms and the Scientific Ethos
    • How closely do we conform to Merton’s norms?
  • What happens when scientific norms are violated?
    • Violations of the scientific ethos in social psychology
    • Diederick Stapel is accused of research fraud: A New York Times article
    • Articulating the problem and possible ways forward

What happens when scientific norms are violated?

We discuss the state of transparency practices in social science research today and compare it to how the scientific community generally believes science should be conducted.

1.5 Violations of the scientific ethos in social psychology

1.6 Diederick Stapel is accused of research fraud: A New York Times article

1.7 Articulating the problem and possible ways forward

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