I have never met blogger Dorothy Bishop, but hope to when I speak at Oxford University in the spring. We find ourselves retweeting a lot of what each of us puts on Twitter. Replication and closer scrutiny of published findings are generally welcome in the scientific community, but questions have been raised over how replication attempts are being reported. Whilst there are certainly arguments for more friendly and cooperative tones to scientific debate, Dorothy Bishop welcomes this next chapter in rigorous debate. Reputation and career prospects will, at the end of the day, come down to the scientific rigour of a person’s research, not on whether a particular result did or did not cross a threshold of p < .05.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:38:49 +0000