Thread by @SylvainCF

[New Blog Post] Why We Cannot Trust the Published Empirical Record in Economics and How to Make Things Better

economistjourney.blogspot.com/2018/09/we-can…

That’s a big important one in which I discuss the evidence that there is a replication crisis in economics and propose solutions

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I explain what the replication crisis is.

And the four contributors to it, the four horsemen of the apocalypse

I then discuss the main recent evidence that there is a replication crisis in economics: a recent paper by Abel Brodeur and coauthors that clearly shows massive underreporting of Null results and signs of questionable research practices.

I provide some real life anecdotes that suggest that this is really serious business, deeply engrained in how we work.

I then examine the proposed solutions, some that do not integrate Null results in the published record, and some that do.

I show what has happened when these tools have been applied in other fields or in Econ.

I end up by proposing a new initiative, the Social Science Knowledge Accumulation Iniriative, or SKY, to help us accumulate knowledge across fields and detect signs of publication bias using meta-analysis

Do email or DM me if you want to join SKY.

All contributions will be appreciated, we are still at the very early stages.

Here is the same picture without the volume button on!

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Cc and thanks for the inspiration to @chrisdc77 @CRChartier @PsySciAcc @UCBITSS @RegReports @TheReplicateNet @BrianNosek @Kweku_OA @economeager @improvingpsych

And @maxkasy @Xtophe_Bontemps @Treich13 @alban_thomas_ts

And @uri_sohn