OT: two interesting articles about (non-)reproducible research

OT: two interesting articles about (non-)reproducible research

[Nick Dokos]

[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).

--
Nick

Re: OT: two interesting articles about (non-)reproducible research

[Thomas S. Dye]

Thanks Nick, much appreciated.  Long live org-babel!

All the best,
Tom

Nick Dokos writes:

> [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).


-- 
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com

Re: OT: two interesting articles about (non-)reproducible research

[Rafael Laboissière]

* 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

Re: OT: two interesting articles about (non-)reproducible research

[Nick Dokos]

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

Re: OT: two interesting articles about (non-)reproducible research

[Christian Moe]

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