TITLE
Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work
DESCRIPTION
“The field of psychology sustained a damaging blow…: A new analysis found that only 36 percent of findings from almost 100 studies in the top three psychology journals held up when the original experiments were rigorously redone.” In the news comes the revelation that Psychologists have begun looking inward at their own published work. As stated in the quotation, 64% of the studies could not be replicated. The results were weak at best and some did not reproduce the experimental outcomes.
While this sounds negative, it has given way to some positive changes: stricter guidelines for submission, data and statistical analysis transparency, calls for replication before publishing, and a preregistration procedure with journals that would permit peer reviewed procedures before experimentation.
SOURCE
New York Times, August 28, 2015, by Benedict Carey
LINK TO RESOURCE
(shortened URL) http://tinyurl.com/nptqog2
CLASS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
•Review the guidelines for conducting psychological studies, especially focus on the issue of “REPLICATION.”
•Discuss what factors are used in the acceptance of a Psychological study for publication.
•What are the ethics used in reporting results for publication?
•Discuss the issues of “peer review” prior to publication.
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