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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: OT: two interesting articles about (non-)reproducible research
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:53:21 -0400
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Rafael Laboissière <rafael@laboissiere.net> writes:

> * Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> [2016-04-08 14:54]:
>
>> [off-topic: not even a gratuitous org reference. My only excuse is
>> the general interest of list members on reproducible research
>> (org-babel! OK, that's the requisite gratuitous reference: I feel
>> better now :-) )]
>>
>> 538.com has published a couple of interesting articles on some
>> poli-sci research:
>>
>>  http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-two-grad-students-uncovered-michael-lacour-fraud-and-a-way-to-change-opinions-on-transgender-rights/#ss-1
>>
>> and
>>
>>  http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/as-a-major-retraction-shows-were-all-vulnerable-to-faked-data/
>>
>> N.B. the reference to the "open data" policies of AJPS - that seems
>> to be clearly the future direction of research (and, imo, it's about
>> time).
>
> Ironically, the results "found" in the retreated paper by LaCour &
> Green (2014) have been recently replicated by Broockman & Kalla
> (2016):
>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/talking-people-about-gay-and-transgender-issues-can-change-their-prejudices
>

Very interesting! Thanks for the link.

--
Nick