What Stuart Ritchie thinks about peer review

@stuart-ritchie · 10 positions · 0 changes of mind

Psychologist, formerly a lecturer at King's College London, author of Science Fictions, a book about fraud, bias, negligence and hype in research, and of the Science Fictions newsletter, where he takes individual papers and press releases apart in public.

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1. 27 Dec 2022

   Our readingThe replication crisis is not an aberration; many of the things we believe are wrong

   metascience

   Their wordsWe know how easily these practices can distort the scientific record and give us false-positive, nonsense results.

   ↗Science isn't storytellingsciencefictions.org 2nd of 5 in this piece

2. 3 months earlier

3. 11 Oct 2022

   Our readingPublished effect sizes shrink as more studies are done, and that decline is what the replication crisis is made of.

   metascience

   Their wordsThe decline effect is the idea that scientific findings get smaller over time. That is, initial findings tend to report effect sizes that then crumble away—sometimes to nothing—with subsequent research.

   ↗How growth mindset shranksciencefictions.org 2nd of 3 in this piece