MarkRubin

@MarkRubin@fediscience.org

Psychology, metascience, and academic life. Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.

My research: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/

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MarkRubin, to random

New article from me:

“Inconsistent multiple testing corrections: The fallacy of using family-based error rates to make inferences about individual hypotheses”

Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100140

MarkRubin, to random

New article from me:

“Redundant multiple testing corrections: The fallacy of using family-based error rates to make inferences about individual hypotheses”

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.11507

MarkRubin, to random

Prediction vs Accommodation: Which is Better and When?

In this blog post, I summarise the arguments in Pekka Syrjänen’s (2023) recent Synthese article.

https://markrubin.substack.com/p/prediction-vs-accommodation

MarkRubin, to statistics

In this new preprint, I argue that “Type I error rates are not usually inflated.”

https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/3kv2b

MarkRubin, to stsing

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







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@psforscher

Thanks Patrick. I'll have a think about this feedback.

MarkRubin, to stsing

How does the science reform movement align with broader changes in the academic landscape? Tom Hostler tackles this question in a new article on “Scientific reform, post-academic research, and academic identity”: https://markrubin.substack.com/p/scientific-reform-post-academic-research
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MarkRubin,

Tom contextualizes the science reform movement in relation to Ziman’s (2000) concept of “post-academic research,” which is research done for instrumental reasons (e.g., to solve a local problem) rather than for its own sake.

Post-academic research has been slowly taking over academia, with the push for industry collaboration a key sign (see also https://markrubin.substack.com/p/the-industrialisation-of-science). But how does science reform align with post-academic research?

MarkRubin,

Tom argues that “a focus on methodology and producing transferable, reproducible knowledge is more amenable to a post-academic ethos focused on providing specialist technical solutions to specific local ‘problems.’”

MarkRubin,

Anyway, Tom’s article is a fascinating read that relates changes in science to broader changes in academia.

And before you go, here’s another of Tom’s recent contributions you might find interesting: “The Invisible Workload of Open Research”: https://doi.org/10.36850/mr5

MarkRubin,

In my view, Tom’s analysis also helps to explain why replication failures are more troubling in a post-academic context.

In traditional academic research, replication failures are a feature, not a bug. In contrast, in post-academic research, replication failures threaten the usefulness of potential solutions to local problems, and so there’s a pressure to eliminate them.

MarkRubin, to random

Rachel Vanderbilt provides an excellent TikTok response to a question about the replication crisis: 👏

https://www.tiktok.com/@rachelvanderbiltphd/video/7264008971063708974

MarkRubin, to stsing

"Discretion in research practice should perhaps not be seen as a weakness or a fault in the scientific method, but rather an integral part of it."

New preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/7dh3t/








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MarkRubin,

For a summary and my thoughts on this work, see 👇

https://markrubin.substack.com/p/the-preregistration-prescriptiveness

MarkRubin, to psychology

Listening to the advice of outgroup members can make you more accurate during decision-making:

"Outgroup advice reduced the desirability effect of predicting one’s team as winning and increased accuracy."

van Swol et al. (2023). The benefits of advice from outgroup members on decision accuracy and bias reduction.

APA link: https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000173


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MarkRubin, to psychology

More to lose, less to say!

New study (N = 896) suggests that white-collar workers may remain silent in the face of abusive supervision practices because they’re more concerned about losing their status and privileges relative to blue-collar workers.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2023.07.001


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MarkRubin, to psychology

Q: Why do people remain biased even after psychologists have revealed their potential biases?

A: People have a "bias blind spot": They understand that biases exist but they fail to see them in their own attitudes and behaviour.

https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231178745


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devezer, to random

Is this where we've ended up at regards to evidence evaluation? No preregistration = No evidentiary value

What does this do our reading, understanding, and evaluation of science? Why do we need these shortcuts? This kind of thinking will lead us astray for a long time to come.

MarkRubin,

@richarddmorey @dlakelan @devezer @MarkHanson Looks like a really interesting talk! I agree with the main point: "There are no statistical inferences, only scientific ones." You always need theory to make an educated guess at your reference class and a subsequent inference. And yes, the assumption that stats gives you a pipeline to the Truth independent of theory is likely a major contributor to the replication crisis! 👏

MarkRubin, to random

Alex Zelinsky, the vice-chancellor of the University of Newcastle, gave himself a $70,000 pay rise to $940,000 last year after leading his university to (a) a $38 million deficit, (b) $6.2million in wage theft, and (c) real wage cuts for casual academics.

Senator Tony Sheldon describes Zelinksy's pay rise as "outrageous...disgusting...pitiful...and an indictment of the university sector."

https://twitter.com/TonySheldonNSW/status/1664534211259437056


MarkRubin, to random

🚨 2 0 2 3 🚨

🔺 World's hottest day on record
🔺 Hottest June on record globally
🔺 Extreme marine heatwaves
🔺 Record low Antarctic sea-ice

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66229065

MarkRubin, to random

New USA survey (N > 2,000) finds female instructors in science and engineering are more likely than their male colleagues to disclose to their students that they have depression, anxiety, or a disability.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287795

MarkRubin, to random

Scrolling, scrolling scrolling….

Our new research finds passive social media use is associated with poorer mental health, especially among younger people.

Open access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1181233

MarkRubin, to stsing

Metascience News:

@tomstafford provides a round up of the latest metascience news, workshops, conferences, talks, and listservs!

https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/anyone-for-metascience







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MarkRubin, to academia

“Reviewers for a paper should be restricted in the number of citations that they can suggest from their own work (we suggest a 3 citation maximum, but a zero tolerance policy could also be justified).”

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114129


@academicchatter

MarkRubin,

@marcobie @academicchatter Yes, totally agree. References in reviews are generally a good thing!

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