BOSTON COLLOQUIUM FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2016–2017 57th Annual Program Download the 57th Annual Program The Alfred I. Taub forum: UNDERSTANDING REPRODUCIBILITY & ERROR CORRECTION IN SCIENCE Cosponsored by GMS and BU’s BEST at Boston University. Friday, March 17, 2017 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union 775 Commonwealth Avenue Reputation, […]
David Mellor, from the Center for Open Science, emailed me asking if I’d announce his Preregistration Challenge on my blog, and I’m glad to do so. You win $1,000 if your properly preregistered paper is published. The recent replication effort in psychology showed, despite the common refrain – “it’s too easy to get low P-values” – that in […]
Findings of Research Misconduct A Notice by the Health and Human Services Dept on 11/09/2015 AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has taken final action in the following case: Anil Potti, M.D., Duke University School of Medicine: Based on the […]
“Is the Philosophy of Probabilism an Obstacle to Statistical Fraud Busting?” was my presentation at the 2014 Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science):“Revisiting the Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data: Scaling Up to Meet the Challenge.” As often happens, I never put these slides into a stand alone paper. But I have […]
Saturday Night Brainstorming: The TFSI on NHST–part reblog from here and here, with a substantial 2015 update! Each year leaders of the movement to “reform” statistical methodology in psychology, social science, and other areas of applied statistics get together around this time for a brainstorming session. They review the latest from the Task Force on Statistical […]
Here’s the follow-up to my last (reblogged) post. initially here. My take hasn’t changed much from 2013. Should we be labeling some pursuits “for entertainment only”? Why not? (See also a later post on the replication crisis in psych.) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I had said I would label as pseudoscience or questionable science any enterprise that regularly permits the kind of […]
If questionable research practices (QRPs) are prevalent in your field, then apparently you can’t be guilty of scientific misconduct or fraud (by mere QRP finagling), or so some suggest. Isn’t that an incentive for making QRPs the norm? The following is a recent blog discussion (by Ulrich Schimmack) on the Jens Förster scandal: I thank Richard Gill for […]
Diederik Stapel’s book, “Ontsporing” has been translated into English, with some modifications. From what I’ve read, it’s interesting in a bizarre, fraudster-porn sort of way. Faking Science: A true story of academic fraud Diederik Stapel Translated by Nicholas J.L. Brown Nicholas J. L. Brown (nick.brown@free.fr) Strasbourg, France December 14, 2014 Foreword to the Dutch edition […]
There are some ironic twists in the way social psychology is dealing with its “replication crisis”, and they may well threaten even the most sincere efforts to put the field on firmer scientific footing–precisely in those areas that evoked the call for a “daisy chain” of replications. Two articles, one from the Guardian (June 14), and a second from […]
If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call?(Fisherian Fraudbusters!)* *[adapted from R. Parker's "Ghostbusters"] When you need to warrant serious accusations of bad statistics, if not fraud, where do scientists turn? Answer: To the frequentist error statistical reasoning and to p-value scrutiny, first articulated by R.A. Fisher[i].The latest accusations of big time fraud in social […]
