Hensel, Witold M. (2020) Double Trouble? The Communication Dimension of the Reproducibility Crisis in Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Most discussions of the reproducibility crisis focus on its epistemic aspect: the fact that the scientific community
fails to follow some norms of scientific investigation, which leads to high rates of irreproducibility via a high rate of false positive findings. The purpose of this paper is to argue that there is a heretofore underappreciated and
understudied dimension to the reproducibility crisis in experimental psychology and neuroscience that may prove
to be at least as important as the epistemic dimension. This is the communication dimension. The link between communication and reproducibility is immediate: independent investigators would not be able to recreate an experiment whose design or implementation were inadequately described. I exploit evidence of a replicability and reproducibility crisis in computational science, as well as research into quality of reporting to support the claim that a widespread failure to adhere to reporting standards, especially the norm of descriptive completeness, is an important contributing factor in the current reproducibility crisis in experimental psychology and neuroscience.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Hensel, Witold M. whensel@poczta.onet.pl 0000-0003-1786-3622
Keywords:	replication crisis in psychology and neuroscience; quality of reporting
Subjects:	General Issues > Evidence Specific Sciences > Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Dr. Witold M. Hensel
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2020 15:07
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2020 15:07
Item ID:	18119
Subjects:	General Issues > Evidence Specific Sciences > Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Psychology
Date:	18 September 2020
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18119

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