Critical Metascience
Critical metascience takes a step back to question some common assumptions, approaches, problems, and solutions in metascience.
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Transparency, Replication Rate Targets, and Direct Replications (opens the original)
Is Replication Rare? 🔸 Registered Report Timelines 🔸 Open Science and Trust 🔸 P-Hacking and Publication Bias (opens the original)
AIMOS Presentation 🔸 Mindless Transparency 🔸 Publication Bias 🔸 Top 10 Posts (opens the original)
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AIMOS PresentationI enjoyed making a presentation titled “Questioning Some Metascience Assumptions” to the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand on 13th August. There’s a recording of my presentation below and a copy of my slides here. (The recording appears to cut out towards the end, but bear with it and it will get back on track.)Many
Theory Aversion, Methodolatry, and Scientism in Psychology and Metascience: Comment on Cornejo and Rojas (2026) (opens the original)
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There’s a new book out on “Theory and Model Building in Psychology,” edited by Fabian Hutmacher and Alexander Wendt. You can download a copy here.<img alt="" class="si
Null Results and File Drawers 🔸 The Cooptation of Science Reform 🔸 The Weaponization of Transparency (opens the original)
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Null Results and File DrawersBartosz Maćkiewicz and colleagues conducted a survey of 50 experimental philosophers in order to investigate the prevalence, causes, and potential solutions to publication bias and the file-drawer problem:Contrary to the common assumption that journals reject null results, we found that most projects halt during early data analysis or presentation stages. The primary drivers for this attrition are resource constraints and competing priorities rather than statistical
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