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Rhetoric of psychological measurement theory and practice [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyMetascience scholars have long been concerned with tracking the use of rhetorical language in scientific discourse, oftentimes to analyze the legitimacy and validity of scientific claim-making.
Kathleen L. Slaney +3 more
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A metric of knowledge as information compression reflects reproducibility predictions for biomedical experiments [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceForecasting the reproducibility of research findings is one of the key challenges of metascience. Above-chance predictions have mainly been achieved by pooling the subjective ratings of experts, and how these predictions are formed remains to be ...
Daniele Fanelli +3 more
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Designing a Metascience Institute [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2023 This proposal outlines an open, transparent and collaborative process to design a Metascience Institute that would apply the scientific method onto itself, with the mission to improve the research landscape systemically in terms of maximizing societal ...
Daniel Mietchen
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Questionable Metascience Practices
Journal of Trial and Error, 2023 Metascientists have studied questionable research practices in science. The present article considers the parallel concept of questionable metascience practices (QMPs).
Mark Rubin
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Temporal validity as meta-science
Research & Politics, 2023 The “credibility revolution” has forced quantitative social scientists to confront the limits of our methods for creating general knowledge. As a result, many practitioners aim to generate valid but local knowledge and then synthesize and apply that ...
Kevin Munger
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Predicting and reasoning about replicability using structured groups
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 This paper explores judgements about the replicability of social and behavioural sciences research and what drives those judgements. Using a mixed methods approach, it draws on qualitative and quantitative data elicited from groups using a structured ...
Bonnie C. Wintle +18 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Cumulative scientific progress requires empirical results that are robust enough to support theory construction and extension. Yet in psychology, some prominent findings have failed to replicate, and large-scale studies suggest replicability issues are ...
Veronica Boyce +2 more
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Pseudogenes, RNAs and new reproducibility norms
eLife, 2020 The partial success of a study to reproduce experiments that linked pseudogenes and cancer proves that understanding RNA networks is more complicated than expected.
George A Calin
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Judgements of research co-created by Generative AI: Experimental evidence
Economics and Business Review, 2023 The introduction of ChatGPT has fuelled a public debate on the appropriateness of using Generative AI (large language models; LLMs) in work, including a debate on how they might be used (and abused) by researchers.
Niszczota Paweł, Conway Paul
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The Quest for Psychiatric Advancement through Theory, beyond Serendipity
Brain Sciences, 2021 Over the past century, advancements in psychiatric treatments have freed countless individuals from the burden of life-long, incapacitating mental illness. These treatments have largely been discovered by chance.
Robert E. Kelly +4 more
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