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On scientific consensus

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:18. April 2017
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Metascience/Science

In reply to: Scott Alexander's Learning To Love Scientific Consensus. Actually, I have planned (in my mind) a somewhat longer post on my take on the 'correct contrarian cluster', or…

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Tail effects in climate science and the pleasures of polymathy

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:21. August 2015
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Metascience

From the interactive visualization I previously published to give foster an intuitive understanding of the concept: Tail effects are when there are large differences between groups at the extremes (tails)…

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How to integrate Winnower, blog posts and ResearchGate?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:16. March 2015
  • Post category:Metascience

Abstract I argue that traditional scientific publication is extremely costly and that scientific publication must move towards more rapid publication practices. I discuss how this might be accomplished by integrating…

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Personality correlates of breadth vs. depth of research scholarship

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:6. March 2015
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/Metascience

Also posted on the Project Polymath blog. An interesting study has been published: Thomas S. Bateman, and Andrew M. Hess. Different personal propensities among scientists relate to deeper vs. broader…

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Review: The Second Machine Age (Brynjolfsson & McAfee)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. February 2015
  • Post category:Economics/Metascience

Goodreads. Libgen. This book is background material for CGPGrey's great short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU So, if you saw that and are more curious, perhaps this book is for you. If the…

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Review: Faking Science (Diederik Stapel)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:12. January 2015
  • Post category:Metascience/Psychology

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24298516-faking-science FakingScience-20141214 <-- PDF In general, this book was a fun and quick read. It gets somewhat repetitive with his descriptions of how bad he feels for his actions and…

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Publication bias index by the author: a way to keep scientists honest?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. January 2015
  • Post category:Metascience

https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/551535440831201280 Would this work? Authors can reduce their publication bias measure by publishing new studies that are more honest (with regards to reporting, research practices or not making data up,…

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Discrimination against females in grant applications or publication bias?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:6. November 2014
  • Post category:Metascience

While looking for peer-review related studies, I came across a meta-analysis of gender bias in grant applications. That sounds good. Bornmann, L., Mutz, R., & Daniel, H. D. (2007). Gender…

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Jeffrey Beall’s anti-open access tirade

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. October 2014
  • Post category:Metascience

I came across this one. On the one hand it seems written in a serious tone. On the other hand, the claims are so ridiculous that it is hard to…

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P-hacking in science over time

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:13. September 2014
  • Post category:Metascience

The rest of the paper is interesting too: A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades (but negative results are increasing rapidly too). Found via Scholar of…

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