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Author: Ruben Arslan

Science needs downvotes

April 13, 2026 Ruben Arslan 2 Comments

A bug bounty module in grants would give criticism a leg up The Soviet Union was good at producing shoes.…

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Posted in: Error culture, Metrics Filed under: bug bounty, error culture, mistakes
THINK INSIDE THE BOX

Think inside the box, part 1: The guy Euclidean distance told you not to worry about

March 9, 2026 Ruben Arslan Leave a comment

Romance could be so simple if only we were two-dimensional. You just find the closest available partner and go for…

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Posted in: Causal inference, Crosspost, Measurement, Statistics Filed under: causal inference, measurement, simulation, statistics
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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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Posted in: Uncategorized

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 1 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

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