Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt
In 2021, the German Psychological Society (DGPs) signed the DORA declaration. In consequence, they recently installed a task force with the goal to create a recommendation how a responsible research assessment could be practically implemented in hiring and promotion within Continue Reading …
I want to invest my reviewing work in research that is worth to be reviewed. Furthermore, I do not want to further increase the billion dollar donations to premium publishers any more. When deciding whether to accept or reject a review, I apply the following heuristics: Continue Reading …
In 2015, the psychology department at LMU Munich for the first time announced a professorship position with an “open science statement” (see original job description here): Our department embraces the values of open science and strives for replicable and reproducible Continue Reading …
tl;dr: Publication bias and p-hacking can dramatically inflate effect size estimates in meta-analyses. Many methods have been proposed to correct for such bias and to estimate the underlying true effect. In a large simulation study, we studied which methods do Continue Reading …
Recently, Matt Motyl et al. (2017) posted a pre-print paper in which they contrasted the evidential value of several journals in two time periods (2003-2004 vs. 2013-2014). The paper sparked a lot of discussion in Facebook groups [1][2], blog posts Continue Reading …
tl;dr: The German Psychological Society developed and adopted new recommendations for data sharing that fully embrace openness, transparency and scientific integrity. Key message is that raw data are an essential part of an empirical publication and must be openly shared. Continue Reading …
by Angelika Stefan & Felix Schönbrodt This is the second part of “Two meanings of priors”. The first part explained a first meaning – “priors as subjective probabilities of models”. While the first meaning of priors refers to a global Continue Reading …
by Angelika Stefan & Felix Schönbrodt When reading about Bayesian statistics, you regularly come across terms like “objective priors“, “prior odds”, “prior distribution”, and “normal prior”. However, it may not be intuitively clear that the meaning of “prior” differs in Continue Reading …
From 17th to 22th September, the 50th anniversary congress of the German psychological association takes place in Leipzig. On previous conferences in Germany in the last two or three years, the topic of the credibility crisis and research transparency has Continue Reading …
[This is a guest post by Ned Bicare, PhD] My dear fellow scientists! “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” This aphorism, attributed to Ronald Coase, sometimes has been used in a disrespective manner, as if it was wrong Continue Reading …