"I posted on the Monkey Cage blog some further thoughts on those “Psychological Science” papers on menstrual cycles, biceps size, and political attitudes, tied to a horrible press release from the journal Psychological Science hyping the biceps and politics study. Then I was pointed to these suggestions that Richard Lucas and M. Brent Donnellan have on improving the replicability and reproducibility of research published in the Journal of Research in Personality: "It goes without saying that editors of scientific journals strive to publish research that is not only theoretically interesting but also methodologically rigorous. The goal is to select papers that advance the field. Accordingly, editors want to publish findings that can be reproduced and replicated by other scientists. Unfortunately, there has been a recent “crisis in confidence” among psychologists about the quality of psychological research (Pashler & Wagenmakers, 2012). High-profile cases of repeated failures to replicate widely accepted findings, documented examples of questionable research practices, and a few cases of outright fraud have led some to question whether there are systemic problems in the way that research is conducted and evaluated by the scholarly community."
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:46:15 +0000
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