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Critical Metascience:
2022 has been a bumper year for what I’d call “critical metascience” - work that takes a step back and offers a critical perspective in the field.
My Top 10 papers of 2022 in this area are, in alphabetical order… 🥁 🧵👉
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#PsychMethods
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#PhilosophyOfScience
#PhilSci
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Replicability and Theory:
“Our results suggest that many of the practices that have been proposed as a means to improve the replicability of psychological research—such as open data and methods…preregistration and Registered Reports…and basing conclusions on Bayesian inference…or p < .005 rather than p < .05…—do indeed improve confidence in replicability among our sample.”
Continued 🙂 🧵👉
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#PsychMethods
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@MarkRubin This is massively simplistic. Hypotheses include the criteria for delineating phenomena in need of explanation, satisfaction criteria for success, disciplinary standards and practices, and taxonomies of subjects under investigation. IMO.
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What’s a hypothesis?
“A hypothesis is not simply a guess about the result of an experiment. It is a proposed explanation that can predict the outcome of an experiment. A hypothesis has two components: (1) an explanation and (2) a prediction. A prediction simply isn’t useful on its own.” (Haroz, 2014)
Blog post: http://steveharoz.com/blog/2014/mysterious-origins-of-hypotheses-in-visualization-and-chi/
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A “quietist” response to the replication crisis:
“The quietist approach proposes that we should just accept that it is in the nature of science that we get things wrong, and that this is particularly true with sciences in early stages of development.”
Bird (2021). Understanding the replication crisis as a base rate fallacy.
🔒 https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy051
🔓 https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/95454096/Replication_base_rate_fallacy_REV2.pdf
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#PsychMethods
#ReplicationCrisis
#PhilosophyOfScience
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Crypto-positivism:
“A central dimension of our argument is that many of the tenets of positivism are so embedded within Western culture, academia, and the world of education in particular that they are often invisible to researchers and those who consume their research.”
Kincheloe and Tobin (2015): https://doi.org/10.1163/9789463000765_003
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“We are not only in a replication but an interpretation crisis, a crisis of theory building.”
Benjamin Krämer (@benjkraemer) (2022, November). Why are most published research findings under-theorized? In Questions of Communicative Change and Continuity.
🔓 https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748928232-23.pdf
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#PsychMethods
#ReplicationCrisis
#ScienceofScience
#PhilosophyOfScience
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Philosophers here definitely need a proper Mastodon hashtag like #histodon and #mathstodon folks have. So far I've seen #philscidon, but not #philodon or #philosodon. Is there any such hashtag in other instances? If not, which one should we use?