Mark Rubin
- https://twitter.com/RubinPsyc
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Psychology, metascience, and academic life. Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.
New article from me:
“The replication crisis is less of a ‘crisis’ in the Lakatosian approach than it is in the Popperian and naïve methodological falsificationism approaches”
Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/p/popper-lakatos-and-the-replication-crisis
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/2dz9s
Does it replicate?
New review article surveyed replication studies (do it again, see if it works again) published between 2018-2019. The overall replication rate was 53.7%, but this varied markedly between fields:
Cobey et al. (2023): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78518
UK university staff are refusing to mark student work in protest over poor pay and working conditions. In response, uni managers appear to be losing the plot: https://twitter.com/UCUEssex/status/1671840922944905217
UK Uni Crisis:
Glasgow university vice-chancellor gives students degree certificates without degree classifications at “sham” graduation ceremony and is then played out with Indiana Jones theme music!
https://twitter.com/pietersnep/status/1671575570230984705
“Throughout the afternoon, students were present wearing pink sashes over their gowns in solidarity with the ongoing UCU strikes. A student was seen with a placard around their neck reading 'renegotiate now'”
Our new research:
"Measuring family support in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, and Turkey: A psychometric investigation"
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JXSUMWCYJBBDWXKEJHZK/full
Peer Review and Article Retractions
New study of 260 peer reviews finds that expert and senior reviewers are more likely to identify issues in manuscript submissions that later lead to article retractions.
New paper considers the “illusion of generalizability” in large, cross-cultural studies.
Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/avcsp/
Selfish Scientists
Researchers who thought of themselves as “scientists” saw themselves as less warm, fair, cooperative, likeable.
“The reminder of being a member of the scientific community that incentivizes individual gain might make researchers less willing to share their knowledge with peers.”
Altenmüller et al. (2023). https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.10011
New paper argues insights from qualitative research can help to improve open science.
Steltenpohl et al. (2023). Rethinking transparency and rigor from a qualitative open science perspective. Journal of Trial & Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/mr7
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Really interesting new preprint argues “there are multiple kinds of theories, each with unique assessment standards.”
Miłkowski (2023). Cognitive metascience: A new approach to the study of theories. https://psyarxiv.com/xvyz3/
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Preregistration
New survey of research articles published between 2010 and 2022 in 10 psychology journals finds only 0.14% are preregistered!?
Boschen (2023). Changes in methodological study characteristics in psychology between 2010-2021. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283353
UK university staff are on a marking boycott to protest poor pay and working conditions.
UK universities claim their response of “changing quality assurance mechanisms and basing final grades on fewer marks” will not devalue degrees. Really?! Then why not stick with that approach permanently to reduce staff workloads?!
Open Science and Academic Workload
New article by Thomas Hostler in the Journal of Trial and Error
“There is a high chance that without intervention, increased expectations to engage in open research practices may lead to unacceptable increases in demands on academics.”
Open access: https://doi.org/10.36850/mr5
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Rethinking Transparency and Rigor from a Qualitative Open Science Perspective
“The aim of this paper is to challenge the current quantitative-focused mainstream understanding of transparency and rigor within the open science movement and suggest additional considerations relating to these concepts from qualitative research paradigms.”
Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/bpu5f
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I'm not sure why BlueSky are advertising their Twitter alternative platform when people can't actually get on it to try it out!
“When you have the option to connect with someone, do you choose to meet up with a new friend or reconnect with an old friend?”
New theoretical article addresses this question from the perspective of optimal foraging theory and the exploration-exploitation trade-off.
Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/2wx9t/
Motives for Not Sharing Data:
"We found no robust empirical evidence for the claim that not sharing research data for reanalysis is associated with consistency errors."
Mark Rubin
- https://twitter.com/RubinPsyc
- ResearchGate
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark-Rubin-9
Psychology, metascience, and academic life. Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.