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The Hare-Brained Generation: Teen mental health crisis or lacklustre record keeping?

December 10, 2024 Ruben Arslan Leave a comment

In The Anxious Generation, Jon Haidt argues that social media is driving a mental health crisis among teens. It’s a…

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Posted in: Causal inference, Error culture, Measurement Filed under: error culture, mistakes, peer review, social media
A treemap of how widely reused psychological measures are.

Oooh baby, rescue me from the jingle jangle jungle

March 22, 2024 Ruben Arslan Leave a comment

Recently, Malte, Taym, Ian and I wrote a short commentary paper on the toothbrush problem for measures in psychology: Everybody…

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Posted in: Error culture, Measurement, Metrics
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The Red Team Challenge (Part 2): The Arbiter’s View

June 30, 2020 Ruben Arslan 1 Comment

This post is second in a series. The first part is Why I placed a bounty on my own research,…

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Posted in: Crosspost, Error culture Filed under: bug bounty, error culture, mistakes, peer review, red team
Mis-allocated scrutiny

Mis-allocated scrutiny

June 24, 2020 Ruben Arslan Leave a comment

In the current system of pre-publication peer review, which papers are scrutinized most thoroughly? In this blog post, I argue…

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Posted in: Crosspost, Metrics, R

New rational athletics for boys and girls.

October 31, 2018 Ruben Arslan Leave a comment

Accounting for mistakes in my scientific work and announcing a bug bounty program. A story of few papers and many…

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Are big studies cited more?

October 22, 2018 Ruben Arslan Leave a comment

Next, we tested whether studies with bigger sample sizes are cited more. More and more, it’s looking as if citations…

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Are studies that replicate cited more?

October 12, 2018 Ruben Arslan Leave a comment

I looked at citations as an indicator of research quality by dusting off two analyses that I did quickly a…

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Posted in: Crosspost, R, Replications, Statistics Filed under: r, reproducibility
Measuring self citation using the patented 100% CI folding rule

The tyranny of metrics in science evaluation

June 26, 2018 Ruben Arslan Leave a comment

Here’s a little-told story about the origins of Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were inspired by research in scientometrics on…

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Posted in: Metrics

Tell me I’m wrong

February 22, 2018 Ruben Arslan 4 Comments

Someone recently told me I was wrong about something. You can read the exchange here (Woodley et al., our reply).[1]minus…

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Stupid solutions to real problems in science

November 23, 2017 Ruben Arslan 4 Comments

This post is a joint effort from all of us at the 100% CI. There is a subreddit for crazy…

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