Project SherlockEst. Knowledge

Paper

2015

Promoting an Open Research Culture

Brian A. Nosek et al.

Proposes the TOP Guidelines - shared standards for citation, data and materials sharing, preregistration and replication - and argues journals and funders, not individual virtue, are the lever that actually changes research practice.

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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.

Filed under Research Methods & the Replication Crisis in Psychology.