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‘Give up freedoms’ to solve reproducibility crisis, says expert – Times Higher Education (Jack Grove | August 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on November 29, 2021
Keywords: Good practice, Publication ethics, Research results, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On August 26, 2021

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Scientists need to ask “uncomfortable questions” about the value of their own research and potentially give up their line of inquiry to work on larger, group-run projects to help address science’s reproducibility crisis, an influential voice on research integrity has argued.

This Times Higher Education piece discusses the fundamental changes science will need to make to address the replicability crisis and safeguard public trust. It won’t be easy or comfortable but it is essential.

Daniel Lakens is an experimental psychologist at Eindhoven University of Technology and was involved in the groundbreaking Open Science Collaboration project in 2015, which found that just 40 per cent of 100 leading psychology experiments were replicable.

He told a conference organised by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam that science had been “busy making incremental changes” to improve reproducibility in scientific research but “had not really fixed the core of why these problems emerge”.

“But the fixes are of such a level that the requirements [needed] are highly likely to make us uncomfortable as scientists,” explained Dr Lakens at the online event on 25 August. He added that these fixes “will change the way we do science and require us to give up certain freedoms” as researchers.

‘Give up freedoms’ to solve reproducibility crisis, says expert
Leading light of research replicability Daniel Lakens says ‘uncomfortable questions’ and tough choices are required to restore trust in science

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(US) Harvard Data Science Review explores reproducibility and replicability in science – EurekAlert (Amy Harris | December 2020)

Despite its big COVID moment, science is in crisis – Crickey (Stephen Bartos | August 2020)

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We’re All ‘P-Hacking’ Now – Wired (Christie Aschwanden | November 2019)

Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility – Nature ( Dorothy Bishop | April 2019)

Dear Peer Reviewer: Could you also replicate the experiments? Thanks – Retraction Watch (Dalmeet Singh Chawla | January 2017)

One reason so many scientific studies may be wrong – The Conversation (Geoff Cumming October 2016)

Why is the scientific replication crisis centered on psychology? – Statistical Modelling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (Andrew: September 2016)

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