The Many Reasons for Irreproducible Research- and a Vaccine to Eradicate It
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Blog Post
Published
Jan. 30, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
...p-hacking, or unclear methods.
Many thanks to our guest blogger David Mellor!
David Mellor leads the policy...reasons that research can be difficult to replicate.
Unclear methods
Until someone attempts to replicate the...questionable research practices (QRPs) can quickly lead us to find statistically significant results that...and the new one, previously unaccounted for, may lead to different results. Different setting, different...important.
If we eliminate the problems above: unclear methods, QRPs, and small samples, then when replications... do we make research more reproducible?
Combat unclear methods with open data, materials, and code
Only...specific statistical test.
Preregistration makes clear the distinction between hypothesis testing work,...