Carl T. Bergstrom on Nostr: There’s a common story that, loosely speaking, the replication crisis occurs when ...

There’s a common story that, loosely speaking, the replication crisis occurs when publication bias and questionable research practices fill the literature with false positives.

That story motivates a lot of science reform efforts — and it’s wrong.

We explain why in our new (well, extensively rewritten) preprint:

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/rkyf7

(I'll try to expand this into a proper thread soon.)