Alex O. Holcombe
Much has been said about how expensive academic journals are. Large companies like Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley publish most of the major journals, and their shareholders pocket much of the “rent” they receive thanks to academics’ labor. CC BY-SA 4.0...
Alex O. Holcombe
Don’t allow your writing to be tied to one platform – register your science-related blog with Rogue Scholar, the free blog indexing service helping bring science blogs into scholarly database infrastructure. I checked with Martin Fenner, who created and runs Rogue Scholar, and he said it works...
Alex O. Holcombe
I confess that I am an experiment chauvinist – I look down on studies that are purely observational, studies that don’t manipulate anything. Where does my prejudice come from? One factor is that as a perceptual and cognitive psychologist, when I do science, I’m usually interested in the causes, or...
Alex O. Holcombe
To evaluate and build on previous findings, a researcher sometimes needs to know exactly what was done before. Computational reproducibility is the ability to take the raw data from a study and re-analyze it to reproduce the final results, including the statistics. Empirical reproducibility...
Alex O. Holcombe
Many of the practices associated with modern science emerged in the early days of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, which was founded in 1660. Today, it is usually referred to as simply “the Royal Society”. When the Royal Society chose a coat of arms, they included the...
Alex O. Holcombe
In a clever bit of rhetoric, Professor Dorothy Bishop came up with “the four horsemen of irreproducibility“: publication bias, low statistical power, p-hacking, and HARKing. In an attempt at more complete coverage of the causes of the replication crisis, here I’m expanding on Dorothy’s four...