Episode 48: Jan Höffler

Nov 26, 2019

🕑 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