@MarkRubin Mark, I don’t understand your passage on optional stopping:
“In this case, it is appropriate for the researcher to use an unadjusted αIndividual. Here, αIndividual refers to the maximum frequency with which the researcher would make an incorrect decision to reject the specified statistical null hypothesis during an imaginary long run of repeated
random sampling in which samples are the same size as that used in the final reported test (e.g., N
= 300).” 1/
“The replication crisis is less of a ‘crisis’ in the Lakatosian approach than it is in the Popperian and naïve methodological falsificationism approaches”
In my view a replication crisis could be a sign of Pseudoscience in Lokatos' theory. This could also be targeted at subdisciplines. Therefore, the replication crisis in Psychology could well be described as a crisis.
The question is whether the research could turn progressive.
I am not in the position to evaluate Psychology in this regard.
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.
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.
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.
This study was not a random sample and there is no data on refusal rates. More than likely this is not a representative sample. Also the study was in Turkey. So: the results may not apply to anyone in Turkey outside this sample, and may not apply to anyone outside of Turkey. Although an interesting project, more research is needed.
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.
New social psychology research finds conservatives’ beliefs that immigrants aren’t supporting the American system enough explains their bias against immigrants and supports a new “Perceived System Justification Deficit Model of Prejudice”.