Brian Nosek
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Yeah, I have always had an interest in how to do good science as a principled matter. And in doing that, we in the lab would work on developing tools and resources to be more transparent with our work, to try to be more rigorous with our work, to try to do higher powered research. more sensitive research designs.
And so I wrote grant applications to say, can we make a repository where people can share their data? This is like 2007. And they would get polarized reviews where some reviewers would say, this would change everything. It'd be so useful to be more transparent with our work. And others saying, but researchers don't like sharing their data. Why would we do that?
And so I wrote grant applications to say, can we make a repository where people can share their data? This is like 2007. And they would get polarized reviews where some reviewers would say, this would change everything. It'd be so useful to be more transparent with our work. And others saying, but researchers don't like sharing their data. Why would we do that?
And so I wrote grant applications to say, can we make a repository where people can share their data? This is like 2007. And they would get polarized reviews where some reviewers would say, this would change everything. It'd be so useful to be more transparent with our work. And others saying, but researchers don't like sharing their data. Why would we do that?
And why would researchers not want to share their data? Yeah, it's based on the academic reward system. Publication is the currency of advancement. I need publications to have a career, to advance my career, to get promoted. And so the work that I do that leads to publication
And why would researchers not want to share their data? Yeah, it's based on the academic reward system. Publication is the currency of advancement. I need publications to have a career, to advance my career, to get promoted. And so the work that I do that leads to publication
And why would researchers not want to share their data? Yeah, it's based on the academic reward system. Publication is the currency of advancement. I need publications to have a career, to advance my career, to get promoted. And so the work that I do that leads to publication
I have a very strong sense of, oh, my gosh, if others now have control of this, my ideas, my data, my designs, my solutions, then I will disadvantage my career.
I have a very strong sense of, oh, my gosh, if others now have control of this, my ideas, my data, my designs, my solutions, then I will disadvantage my career.
I have a very strong sense of, oh, my gosh, if others now have control of this, my ideas, my data, my designs, my solutions, then I will disadvantage my career.
Yeah. And here's the irony is that almost every academic would say, of course, science is supposed to be transparent. Of course, we're doing research for the public good. Of course, this is all to be shared. But come on, Pollyanna, we live in a world, right? The reality here is that there is a reward system and I have to have a career in order to do that research.
Yeah. And here's the irony is that almost every academic would say, of course, science is supposed to be transparent. Of course, we're doing research for the public good. Of course, this is all to be shared. But come on, Pollyanna, we live in a world, right? The reality here is that there is a reward system and I have to have a career in order to do that research.
Yeah. And here's the irony is that almost every academic would say, of course, science is supposed to be transparent. Of course, we're doing research for the public good. Of course, this is all to be shared. But come on, Pollyanna, we live in a world, right? The reality here is that there is a reward system and I have to have a career in order to do that research.
And so, yes, we can talk all about those ideals of transparency and sharing and rigor, reproducibility. But if they're not part of the reward system, you're asking me to either behave by my ideals and not have a career or have a career and sacrifice some of those ideals.
And so, yes, we can talk all about those ideals of transparency and sharing and rigor, reproducibility. But if they're not part of the reward system, you're asking me to either behave by my ideals and not have a career or have a career and sacrifice some of those ideals.
And so, yes, we can talk all about those ideals of transparency and sharing and rigor, reproducibility. But if they're not part of the reward system, you're asking me to either behave by my ideals and not have a career or have a career and sacrifice some of those ideals.
And in the end of that, 2015, we published The Findings, which was a 270 co-author paper of 100 replications of findings from three different journals in psychology. We got a little less than half of the findings successfully replicated.
And in the end of that, 2015, we published The Findings, which was a 270 co-author paper of 100 replications of findings from three different journals in psychology. We got a little less than half of the findings successfully replicated.
And in the end of that, 2015, we published The Findings, which was a 270 co-author paper of 100 replications of findings from three different journals in psychology. We got a little less than half of the findings successfully replicated.
Little less than half of the findings successfully replicated.