Friday, 23 September 2016

Psychology's reproducibility crisis: why statisticians are publicly calling out social scientists

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Princeton University psych prof Susan Fiske published an open letter denouncing the practice of using social media to call out statistical errors in psychology research, describing the people who do this as "terrorists" and arguing that this was toxic because of the structure of social science scholarship, having an outsized effect on careers. (more…)