Tag: replication
Sodium Nitroprusside Shows No Efficacy in Schizophrenia Treatment
Researchers question biases of preliminary trials that found that sodium nitroprusside, an antihypertensive drug, has positive effects on schizophrenia symptoms.
Hundreds of Researchers to Replicate Psychology Studies
From BuzzFeed: As part of a new network called the Psychological Science Accelerator, more than 400 psychologists worldwide are teaming up to fix the so-called replication...
Pharma Data Sharing Efforts Off to a Slow Start
Researchers discuss the preliminary results of clinical trial data sharing efforts by pharmaceutical companies and other groups.
âA Creative Solution for Psychologyâs Replication Problemâ
In the Atlantic, Ed Yong reports that despite the lack of replicability of individual studies, when you get a pool of psychologists âbetting onâ the reproducibility of a study their predictions are surprisingly accurate. âWhich makes me wonder: What's going on with peer review? If people know which results are really not likely to be real, why are they allowing them to be published?â
