Reblogged from Ed Young: Psychologists have been sailing through some pretty troubled waters of late. They’ve faced several cases of fraud, high-profile failures to repeat the results of classic experiments, and debates about commonly used methods that are recipes for sexy but misleading results. The critics, many of whom are psychologists themselves,…
Research Transparency Landscape
A landscape of funder data access policies and other resources, by Stephanie Wykstra. New technology makes sharing research outputs– not just publications but also raw data, code, software, even lab notebooks – easier than ever before. The benefits from more open science are widely acknowledged. Yet there is still room for improvement:…
The Imperative to Share Complete Replication Files
“Good research involves publishing complete replication files, making every step of research as explicit and reproducible as is practical.” This is the conclusion from a new paper by political scientist Allan Dafoe (Yale University). Dafoe examines the availability of replication data in political science journals, and concludes that “for the majority of published statistical analyses, […]…