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Interesting blog about a meeting at UCL this week looking at scientific standards in psychology and neuroscience - with an appearance there by blogger Neuroskeptic
Is science broken? The reproducibility crisis
by Liz Bal at Biomed Central blog network
highlights:
Chris Chambers, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Cardiff University, blamed this problem on the pressure to publish ‘good’ results. Too often, the quality of science is measured by the perceived level of interest, novelty and impact of the results. This leads to a number of problems in the research process – publication bias; significance chasing; ‘HARKing’ (hypothesizing after the results are known); a lack of data sharing and replication; and low statistical power.
he argues for pre-registration of studies with journals, that are peer-reviewed and accepted on the basis of the methodology, and published regardless of results so long as protocol was followed. He oversees this process at the journal Cortex.
Neuroskeptic, Neuroscience, Psychology and Psychiatry researcher and blogger, said he became disillusioned by poor practices as a PhD student - referring to a “tacit decision” among scientists to accept methods that they would not dream of teaching to undergraduates.
On the other hand, Sam Schwarzkopf, Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology at UCL, argued science is not broken and is actually working better than ever before
read the full blog
Is science broken? The reproducibility crisis
by Liz Bal at Biomed Central blog network
highlights:
Chris Chambers, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Cardiff University, blamed this problem on the pressure to publish ‘good’ results. Too often, the quality of science is measured by the perceived level of interest, novelty and impact of the results. This leads to a number of problems in the research process – publication bias; significance chasing; ‘HARKing’ (hypothesizing after the results are known); a lack of data sharing and replication; and low statistical power.
he argues for pre-registration of studies with journals, that are peer-reviewed and accepted on the basis of the methodology, and published regardless of results so long as protocol was followed. He oversees this process at the journal Cortex.
Neuroskeptic, Neuroscience, Psychology and Psychiatry researcher and blogger, said he became disillusioned by poor practices as a PhD student - referring to a “tacit decision” among scientists to accept methods that they would not dream of teaching to undergraduates.
On the other hand, Sam Schwarzkopf, Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology at UCL, argued science is not broken and is actually working better than ever before
read the full blog