Episode 31: Class 2 - What even is a replication?

It’s week 2 of Amy’s “Psychology as a Robust Science” course and we are discussing replications. What are they? Is there a distinction between direct and conceptual replications? Do direct replications actually exist? Tune in to (maybe) find out!

Related papers and links

Open Science Collaboration (2015) Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716

Nosek and Errington (2017) Making sense of replications
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5245957/

Brian Nosek’s Queensland talk Amy mentioned (roughly between 5:00-15:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRmyW8GmJs

Gilbert, Daniel T., Gary King, Stephen Pettigrew, and Timothy D. Wilson. ‘Comment on “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science”’. Science 351, no. 6277 (4 March 2016): 1037–1037. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad7243.

Anderson, Christopher J., Štěpán Bahník, Michael Barnett-Cowan, Frank A. Bosco, Jesse Chandler, Christopher R. Chartier, Felix Cheung, et al. ‘Response to Comment on “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science”’. Science 351, no. 6277 (4 March 2016): 1037–1037. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad9163.

Bishop, Dorothy V. M. ‘BishopBlog: Sowing Seeds of Doubt: How Gilbert et al’s Critique of the Reproducibility Project Has Played out’. BishopBlog (blog), 27 May 2018. http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2018/05/sowing-seeds-of-doubt-how-gilbert-et.html

Music credit: Kevin MacLeod - Funkeriffic
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