Here’s a depressing new paper that surveys reporting practices in The Journal of Neurophysiology after it instituted new reporting guidelines for authors (Héroux et al., 2023). Why depressing? Because the updated guidelines seem to have done little to improve reporting, …
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“If I were teaching introductory statistics to undergraduates, this is the textbook I’d use. The things that make it distinctive are first, the focus on estimation rather than p-values (though the latter are covered), second, the link with free open-source …
Computational reproducibility is a mouthful but the idea is simple: Use the reported data analysis to get the reported results. Haven’t we always assumed that works? Yes, but. Search for “computational reproducibility” and find recent discussions in numerous disciplines. Conclusion: …
Stop Press: Metascience “Is metascience, and promotion of Open Science practices, the most urgent and consequential field for all of science at present? Maybe yes.” I wrote that about the latest AIMOS meeting (here). Now a leading metascientist is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of …