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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: "Rafael Laboissière" <rafael@laboissiere.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT: two interesting articles about (non-)reproducible research
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:25:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28u0k5a7w.fsf@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160411101328.GA854@laboissiere.net>


Rafael Laboissière writes:

> * Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> [2016-04-08 14:54]:
(...)
>> 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
(...)
>>  http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/as-a-major-retraction-shows-were-all-vulnerable-to-faked-data/
(...)

> 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

Partly replicated, according to the above links. Amazing effect of
canvassing against prejudice, yes; dependence on canvasser belonging to
victimized group, no.

Anyway, very interesting stuff that I'd have missed if not for the posts
here, OT or not. Thanks!

Yours,
Christian       

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-11 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-08 18:54 OT: two interesting articles about (non-)reproducible research Nick Dokos
2016-04-08 20:29 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-04-11 10:13 ` Rafael Laboissière
2016-04-11 16:53   ` Nick Dokos
2016-04-11 17:25   ` Christian Moe [this message]

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