Hensel, Witold M. (2020) Double Trouble? The Communication Dimension of the Reproducibility Crisis in Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10 (3). ISSN 1879-4912
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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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| Keywords: | replication crisis in psychology and neuroscience; quality of reporting; descriptive completeness; reproducibility; replicability | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence Specific Sciences > Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Witold M. Hensel | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2020 02:24 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2020 02:24 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 18190 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal for Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13194-0... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00317-6 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence Specific Sciences > Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Date: | 1 October 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 10 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1879-4912 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18190 |
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