Episode 48: Jan Höffler

🕑 43 minutes Our first-ever live interview! Jan H. Höffler is an economist who runs ReplicationWiki, a MediaWiki-based wiki that holds information about replications and other empirical studies in the fields of social science. Links for some of the topics discussed: ReplicationWiki PsychFileDrawer.org Open Science Framework Center for Open Science ReplicationWiki statistics Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) ReplicationWiki in the news and in the literature Replication crisis Wikipedia article "The Truth Wears Off" (2010 article in The New Yorker) Diederik Stapel Wikipedia article "Just Post It: The Lesson From Two Cases of Fabricated Data Detected by Statistics Alone" (2013 paper by Uri Simonsohn) Brian Wansink Wikipedia article "The Grad Student Who Never Said 'No'" (2016 Brian Wansink blog post) Testing hypotheses suggested by the data Wikipedia article (related to "HARKing") American Statistical Association statement on p-values Stanford prison experiment Wikipedia article Rosenhan experiment Wikipedia article Stanford marshmallow experiment Wikipedia article Faking Science: A True Story of Academic Fraud (free English translation of 2014 book by Diederik Stapel) "When contact changes minds" (2014 experiment): Wikipedia article, ReplicationWiki article cascad American Journal of Political Science (journal that requires replication instructions) WikiJournal proposal science-fraud.org