Too good to be true: Publication bias in two prominent studies from experimental psychology |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Gregory?FrancisEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA |
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Abstract: | Empirical replication has long been considered the final arbiter of phenomena in science, but replication is undermined when
there is evidence for publication bias. Evidence for publication bias in a set of experiments can be found when the observed
number of rejections of the null hypothesis exceeds the expected number of rejections. Application of this test reveals evidence
of publication bias in two prominent investigations from experimental psychology that have purported to reveal evidence of
extrasensory perception and to indicate severe limitations of the scientific method. The presence of publication bias suggests
that those investigations cannot be taken as proper scientific studies of such phenomena, because critical data are not available
to the field. Publication bias could partly be avoided if experimental psychologists started using Bayesian data analysis
techniques. |
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