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A Viable Approach to Mitigating Irreproducibility

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  • David Trafimow

    (Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 30001, USA)

  • Tonghui Wang

    (Department of Mathematics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 30001, USA)

  • Cong Wang

    (Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska Omaha Omaha, NE 68182, USA)

Abstract

In a recent article, Trafimow suggested the usefulness of imagining an ideal universe where the only difference between original and replication experiments is the operation of randomness. This contrasts with replication in the real universe where systematicity, as well as randomness, creates differences between original and replication experiments. Although Trafimow showed (a) that the probability of replication in the ideal universe places an upper bound on the probability of replication in the real universe, and (b) how to calculate the probability of replication in the ideal universe, the conception is afflicted with an important practical problem. Too many participants are needed to render the approach palatable to most researchers. The present aim is to address this problem. Embracing skewness is an important part of the solution.

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  • David Trafimow & Tonghui Wang & Cong Wang, 2021. "A Viable Approach to Mitigating Irreproducibility," Stats, MDPI, vol. 4(1), pages 1-11, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jstats:v:4:y:2021:i:1:p:15-215:d:512617
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    1. Trafimow, David & Hyman, Michael R. & Kostyk, Alena, 2020. "The (im)precision of scholarly consumer behavior research," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 93-101.
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