"More than box-ticking?" New survey of 143 preregistrations from German psychologists published during 2020 finds that many are missing key elements. osf.io/preprints/os...@lenahahn.bsky.social@mariogollwitzer.bsky.social@kaisassenberg.bsky.social#MetaSci#Methodology#Psychology 🧪🧵
READ. THIS. #metasci#scicomments#sts
This is really good work by folks who might be familiar to you. 😎 We are on the @PSJ_Editor blog. Especially of interest for #scienceofscience#publicpolicy#governance#LLM#politicalscience#datascience#SciPol#Science4Policy#metasci
NEW BLOG POST ALERT! The Dynamics of Issue Attention in Policy Process Scholarship by E. J. Fagan, Alexander Furnas, Chris Koski, Herschel Thomas, Samuel Workman, & Corinne Connor psjblog.net/2024/09/25/t... #PSJ#PolicyStudiesJournal
by E. J. Fagan, Alexander Furnas, Chris Koski, Herschel Thomas, Samuel Workman, & Corinne Connor The Policy Studies Journal (PSJ) is the premier destination for scholars who apply and advance theories...
In webinar *Antidotes to cynicism creep in academia* with the excellent @eikofried.bsky.social@jamesheathers.bsky.social#metasciosf.io/5rf2m/
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The soft science thing was something I actually saw/heard at an online metasci conference (some of them are open to non academics like me). The pattern of conflict/contrast is everywhere.
Retraction notice for "High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable" is up: www.nature.com/articles/s41...@jbakcoleman.bsky.socialwww.nature.com/articles/s41...#metasci
Probably an imprecise estimate, but we should take the possibility that the rate of fake papers could be this high seriously. Too often assumed that outright fakery must be a small problem in comparison to other drivers of low reproducibility... #metasci
It's new preprint day, and 1 out of 7 scientific papers are fake. One in seven. At least, that's my estimate. It might change. If it does, it won't be by much. Yes, it should scare you. This piece links to the preprint, but I'll link to that at the end. retractionwatch.com/2024/09/24/1...
James Heathers In 2009, a now highly-cited study found an average of around 2% of scientists admit to have falsified, fabricated, or modified data at least once in their career. Fifteen years…