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* 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

Rafael