[Jdm-society] Replications

[Jonathan Baron]

Can't resist a couple of replies:

On 05/06/07 08:28, David J. Weiss wrote:
> The only practical way to change things is by creating a neutral incentive
> to do a replication study. The easiest way to accomplish this would be to
> embed a replication requirement into the Ph.D. program.

As Chair of the Graduate Group in Psychology at Penn, I refuse to add
one more requirement.  Already, the American Psychological Association
(APA) has "requirement bias" in spades.  Every time someone mentions a
problem, it gets "solved" by adding a new requirement.  It is worse
than the U.S. tax law.  Our clinical students must meet so many
requirements that it is almost technically impossible (in the sense of
violating a basic law of physics, that one body cannot be in two
places at the same time).  They certainly cannot take a course that
does not meet some APA requirement.

> While Jon might be willing to allocate a portion of the SJDM journal space
> for such papers, there would be far too many to put there, so the solution
> would be to create an independent Journal of Replication Studies.

There is no limit on journal space in an open-access journal on the
web.  The price of disk space is falling, so that it is becoming
available faster than the expansion of the journal.  (I do need
another mirror site somewhere far away though.)

I might also point out that Craig Fox's article in 1 (1) was extremely
popular.  It was a replication (of a surprising result).  Not an exact
replication to be sure, but a replication in a slightly different
context.

Jon
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