Rafael Laboissière <raf...@laboissiere.net> writes: > * Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> [2016-04-08 14:54]: > >> [off-topic: not even a gratuitous org reference. My only excuse is >> the general interest of list members on reproducible research >> (org-babel! OK, that's the requisite gratuitous reference: I feel >> better now :-) )] >> >> 538.com has published a couple of interesting articles on some >> poli-sci research: >> >> >> http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-two-grad-students-uncovered-michael-lacour-fraud-and-a-way-to-change-opinions-on-transgender-rights/#ss-1 >> >> and >> >> >> http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/as-a-major-retraction-shows-were-all-vulnerable-to-faked-data/ >> >> N.B. the reference to the "open data" policies of AJPS - that seems >> to be clearly the future direction of research (and, imo, it's about >> time). > > Ironically, the results "found" in the retreated paper by LaCour & > Green (2014) have been recently replicated by Broockman & Kalla > (2016): > > http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/talking-people-about-gay-and-transgender-issues-can-change-their-prejudices >
Very interesting! Thanks for the link. -- Nick
