Metascience – the study of science and its improvement – isn’t simply a field of science. There’s a movement, too. What’s more…
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Reproducibility The Metascience Movement Needs to be More Self-CriticalRead more
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Bias Open Badges Redux: A Few Years On, How’s the Evidence Looking?Read more
A couple of years ago, I took shots at the way a small, uncontrolled study from 2016 of badges to encourage…
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Reproducibility Why Don’t We Do More Visualizations of Methods?Read more
When engineer and political economist William Playfair started designing graphical representations of data in the 18th century, he was trying, he…
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Bias Should We Trust Meta-Analyses with Meta-Conflicts of Interest?Read more
There are a couple of angles to look at researcher conflict of interest from. One is that a conflict could distort…
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Reproducibility Can We Science Our Way out of the Reproducibility Crisis?Read more
Many studies are so thin on details, they’re unverifiable, unusable, or both. Many are too small, badly designed, or otherwise…
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Reproducibility Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research ReliabilityRead more
It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in the…
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Bias Psychology’s Meta-Analysis ProblemRead more
Psychology has a meta-analysis problem. And that’s contributing to its reproducibility problem. Meta-analyses are wallpapering over many research weaknesses, instead of being…
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Evidence 5 Tips For Avoiding P-Value PotholesRead more
The hunt for p-values less than 0.05 has left many of science’s roadways riddled with potholes. More than 50% of them in…
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