Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science

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• False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as SignificantJoseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson & Uri Simonsohn, 2011Ordinary, undisclosed researcher choices - when to stop collecting data, which conditions to drop, which covariates to control for - let a false hypothesis reach statistical significance far more often than the nominal 5% rate, demonstrated by using them to 'prove' an impossible effect.

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• Evaluating Replicability of Laboratory Experiments in EconomicsColin F. Camerer et al., 2016Replicates eighteen well-known behavioural and experimental economics results and finds roughly two-thirds hold up, showing the field's replication rate but also its limits.