9 Best Articles in 2021
MIT Technology Review
AI is wrestling with a replication crisis
MIT Technology Review
10 min read · 331 saves · 2020-11-12 · Last month Nature published a damning response written by 31 scientists to a study from Google Health that had appeared in the journal earlier this year. Google was describing successful trials of an…
Vox
The "marshmallow test" said patience was a key to success. A new replication tells us s’more.
Vox
~12 min read · 40 saves · From 2018 · The famous psychology test gets roasted in the new era of replication.
Science Magazine
Missing data hinder replication of artificial intelligence studies
Science Magazine
6 min read · 29 saves · From 2018 · Unpublished code and sensitive training conditions aggravate reproducibility crisis in computer science
In Psychology
Nautilus Magazine
The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis
Nautilus Magazine
~13 min read · 61 saves · 2019-08-01 · Here are three versions of the same story:1. In the fall of 1996, Sally Clark, an English solicitor in Manchester, gave birth to an…
The Atlantic
Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses
The Atlantic
5 min read · 48 saves · From 2018 · Another big project has found that only half of studies can be repeated. And this time, the usual explanations fall flat.
en.wikipedia.org
Replication crisis
en.wikipedia.org
10 saves · 2019-02-16 · Wikipedia Contributors · The replication crisis (or replicability crisis or reproducibility crisis) is an ongoing (2019) methodological crisis primarily affecting parts of the social and life sciences in which scholars have…
Scientific American
Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
Scientific American
4 min read · 51 saves · 2020-12-05 · Replication problems plague the field of AI, and the goal of general intelligence remains as elusive as ever
kubernetesbyexample.com
Kubernetes By Example
kubernetesbyexample.com
36 saves · From 2017 · This is a hands-on introduction to Kubernetes. Browse the examples: pods labels replication controllers deployments services service discovery health checks environment variables namespaces volumes…
In Psychology
FiveThirtyEight
Psychology’s Replication Crisis Has Made The Field Better
FiveThirtyEight
5 min read · 24 saves · From 2018 · Christie Aschwanden · In 2012, psychologists Will Gervais and Ara Norenzayan published a paper in the journal Science reporting a series of experiments that suggested engaging in ana…
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Scientific American
Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
Scientific American
4 min read · 51 saves · 2020-12-05 · Replication problems plague the field of AI, and the goal of general intelligence remains as elusive as ever
futuristgerd.com
2017: goodbye to replication, hello to originality. Efficiency is for robots.
futuristgerd.com
5 min read · 2020-12-19 · Originally posted on futuristgerd.com in 2017.
daniellakens.blogspot.com
Why I care about replication studies
daniellakens.blogspot.com
6 min read · 2020-11-29 · Daniel Lakens · In 2009 I attended a European Social Cognition Network meeting in Poland. I only remember one talk from that meeting: A short presentation i...
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fantasticanachronism.com
What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
fantasticanachronism.com
20+ min read · 38 saves · 2020-09-11 · Replication, citations, power, incentives, and more.
jepsen.io
MongoDB 4.2.6
jepsen.io
~15 min read · 34 saves · 2020-05-15 · Kyle Kingsbury · MongoDB is a popular distributed document database. It offers replication via a homegrown consensus protocol which draws inspiration from Raft, and can distribute data across shards via mongos. We…
The New York Times
Essay: The Experiments Are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them.
The New York Times
4 min read · 11 saves · From 2018 · Andrew Gelman · Science is mired in a “replication” crisis. Fixing it will not be easy.
The Atlantic
Psychology’s Replication Crisis Can’t Be Wished Away
The Atlantic
~18 min read · 10 saves · From 2016 · It has a real and heartbreaking cost.
The Verge
Second Life's strange second life
The Verge
~12 min read · 12 saves · From 2015 · Do you remember Second Life? Set up by developer Linden Lab in 2003, it was the faithful replication of our modern world where whoring, drinking, and fighting were acceptable. It was the place...
NPR
Can A Research Accelerator Solve The Psychology Replication Crisis?
NPR
6 min read · 11 saves · 2019-12-13 · For decades, psychology researchers have failed to reproduce findings with similar experiments. This lack of replicability is a big problem for the field. A new global effort is working to solve it.
Slate
We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.
Slate
4 min read · 15 saves · 2019-06-20 · Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn’t actually true.
Vox
The military wants to build a bullshit detector for social science studies
Vox
6 min read · 10 saves · 2019-02-25 · Brian Resnick · Artificial intelligence could potentially help psychology move past its "replication crisis."
Ars Technica
Social science has a complicated, infinitely tricky replication crisis
Ars Technica
9 min read · 10 saves · From 2018 · And researchers are surprisingly good at predicting the failures and successes.
