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Questions tagged [reproducible-research]

For questions about this area, which strives to include enough information with a publication or make data publicly available for other scientists to be able to repeat the experiments in the interest of verification.

For questions about this area, which strives to include enough information with a publication or make data publicly available for other scientists to be able to repeat the experiments in the interest of verification.

See this recent article for some of the issues with reproducible research that the field of psychology is facing.

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Which Cognitive Sciences are the most affected by the Replication Crisis?

As many here are probably aware, a replication crisis seems to have been occurring in many scientific fields for some time now. Allegedly, Psychology is at the center of this crisis, with many of its high-profile studies turning out to be impossible…
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Why doesn't psychology impose higher standards to solve its replication crisis?

This question is inspired by a previous one on Physics.SE. If we believe the answer to that question, particle physics doesn't suffer nearly as much from the reproducibility crisis because it has much higher standards than the social sciences. The…
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Are there peer-reviewed psychology or neuroscience journal articles that include the raw data (data set)?

I am hoping to carry out a pedagogical analysis of some peer reviewed papers, preferably on topics in cognitive science. This would be easier with the raw data its self, in additional to the results section of the paper.
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How to avoid control group contamination?

When running a sociological experiment where subjects are randomly assigned to treatment and control groups and only the treatment group will be sent some information regularly (for example, weekly), how can the researcher minimize the risk of…
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What is the current state of knowledge on the roles and mechanisms of top-down information flow in the brain?

I have heard that "90% of information flow in the brain (or maybe it was just the visual cortex) is top-down". I'm not sure if this claim is substantiated, but I do get the impression that there is strong evidence that at least most of the…
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