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The problem with science : the reproducibility crisis and what to do about it /

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"This book tells the story of how a cadre of dedicated, iconoclastic scientists raised the awareness of a long recognized preference for publishing positive, eye catching, but irreproducible results to the status of a genuine scientific crisis. Most famously encapsulated in 2005 by John Ioannid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bausell, R. Barker, 1942- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Research > Methodology.
Recherche > Méthodologie.
Research & Methodology.
PSYCHOLOGY.
Research.
REFERENCE.
SCIENCE.
Research > Methodology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • I. Background and facilitators of the crisis. Publication bias
  • False-positive results and a nontechnical overview of their modeling
  • Questionable research practices (QRPs) and their devastating scientific effects
  • A few case studies of QRP-driven irreproducible results
  • The return of pathological science accompanied by a pinch of replication
  • II. Approaches for identifying irreproducible findings. The replication process
  • Multiple-study replication initiatives
  • Damage control upon learning that one's study failed to replicate
  • III. Strategies for increasing the reproducibility of published scientific results. Publishing issues and their impact on reproducibility
  • Preregistration, data sharing, and other salutary behaviors
  • A (very) few concluding thoughts.