The Oxford Reproducibility Lectures were largely concerned with trustworthiness of scientific findings, as well as carving out more robust research practices. We discussed adequately powering one’s studies, statistical methods that are better aligned to typical research questions, how to pre-register experiments, how to deal with the garden of forking paths, as well as setting standards … [Read more…]
At the beginning of my postdoc, I told my supervisor I’d like to learn some fMRI on top of my usual electrophysiology. “Wonderful”, she said, “I have just the dataset for you!” It was a straightforward research question with a fairly simple manipulation and it also happened to be along the lines of my interests. … [Read more…]
A couple of years ago, Brian Nosek and colleagues re-ran 100 psychological studies published in top journals during 2008 (source). The question was: will the results replicate? It turns out that’s a nontrivial question. Sure, you might consider that any study where the p-value fell above 0.05 is a study where the effect was not … [Read more…]