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Academia has a problem with race. It’s a problem that academia — like the rest of American society — doesn’t like to acknowledge.
And what scientists learned they still needed it for.
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Psychology’s replication crisis has changed the field. Today, authors are voluntarily posting their data, replication attempts are published in top journals, and researchers are increasing their sample sizes and committing to data collection and analysis plans in advance.
All they needed to be more open with their data was the promise of a badge showing they did it.
In 2012, network scientist and data theorist Samuel Arbesman published a disturbing thesis: What we think of as established knowledge decays over time.
The replication crisis is a sign that science is working.
The p-value was never intended to be a substitute for scientific reasoning.
Nosek et al. found that compared to simply asking experts to predict the likelihood that studies will be reproduced, asking them to bet money on the outcomes improved the accuracy of the guesses.
"If we’re going to rely on science as a means for reaching the truth — and it’s still the best tool we have — it’s important that we understand and respect just how difficult it is to get a rigorous result."
