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[101] Transparency Makes Research Evaluable: Evaluating a Field Experiment on Crime Published in Nature

Posted on April 28, 2022April 28, 2022 by Joe & Uri

A recently published Nature paper (.htm) examined an interesting psychological hypothesis and applied it to a policy relevant question. The authors ran an ambitious field experiment and posted all their data, code, and materials. They also were transparent in showing the results of many different analyses, including some that yielded non-significant results. This is in…

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[99] Hyping Fisher: The Most Cited 2019 QJE Paper Relied on an Outdated Stata Default to Conclude Regression p-values Are Inadequate

Posted on October 13, 2021October 27, 2021 by Uri Simonsohn

The paper titled "Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results" (.htm) is currently the most cited 2019 article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (372 Google cites). It delivers bad news to economists running experiments: their p-values are wrong. To get correct p-values, the article explains, they need to…

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[98] Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty

Posted on August 17, 2021April 23, 2022 by Uri, Joe, & Leif

This post is co-authored with a team of researchers who have chosen to remain anonymous. They uncovered most of the evidence reported in this post. These researchers are not connected in any way to the papers described herein. *** In 2012, Shu, Mazar, Gino, Ariely, and Bazerman published a three-study paper in PNAS (.htm) reporting…

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[97] Data Replicada #10: Does Goal Conflict Affect Time Spent on Work and Leisure?

Posted on May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 by Joe & Leif

In the tenth installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Consumer Research (JMR) article entitled, “Goal Conflict Encourages Work and Discourages Leisure” (.htm). The article’s two key hypotheses are right there in the title: People who are faced with a goal conflict are (1) more likely to…

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[96] Madam Speaker: Are Female Presenters Treated Worse in Econ Seminars?

Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 by Uri Simonsohn

A recent NBER paper titled "Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars" (.htm) reports analyses of audience questions asked during 462 economics seminars, concluding that “women are asked more questions . . . and the questions asked of women are more likely to be patronizing or hostile . . . suggest[ing] yet another potential explanation…

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[94] Data Replicada #9: Are Progression Ads More Credible?

Posted on December 3, 2020December 2, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In the ninth installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) article entitled, “Advertising a Desired Change: When Process Simulation Fosters (vs. Hinders) Credibility and Persuasion” (.htm). Some products, such as weight loss programs, exist to help consumers attain a desired change. In this paper,…

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[92] Data Replicada #8: Is The Left-Digit Bias Stronger When Prices Are Presented Side-By-Side?

Posted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In the eighth installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) article entitled, “The Left-Digit Bias: When and Why Are Consumers Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?” (.htm). In this paper, the authors offer insight into a previously documented observation known as the left-digit bias, whereby…

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[90] Data Replicada #7: Does Displaying Multiple Copies of a Product Increase Its Perceived Effectiveness?

Posted on August 18, 2020August 14, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In the seventh installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) article entitled, “Product Entitativity: How the Presence of Product Replicates Increases Perceived and Actual Product Efficacy” (.html). In this paper, the authors propose that “presenting multiple product replicates as a group (vs. presenting a…

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[89] Data Replicada #6: The Problem of (Weird) Differential Attrition

Posted on July 21, 2020July 22, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In this sixth installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) article entitled, “The Impact of Resource Scarcity on Price-Quality Judgments” (.html). This one was full of surprises. The primary thesis of this article is straightforward: “Scarcity decreases consumers’ tendency to use price to judge…

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[87] Data Replicada #5: Do Human-Like Products Inspire More Holistic Judgments?

Posted on May 20, 2020May 18, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In the fifth installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) article entitled, “The Influence of Product Anthropomorphism on Comparative Choice” (.html). A product becomes “anthropomorphized” when it is imbued with human-like features, such as a face or a name. For example, this camera, which…

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  • [101] Transparency Makes Research Evaluable: Evaluating a Field Experiment on Crime Published in Nature
  • [99] Hyping Fisher: The Most Cited 2019 QJE Paper Relied on an Outdated Stata Default to Conclude Regression p-values Are Inadequate
  • [98] Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty
  • [97] Data Replicada #10: Does Goal Conflict Affect Time Spent on Work and Leisure?
  • [96] Madam Speaker: Are Female Presenters Treated Worse in Econ Seminars?
  • [94] Data Replicada #9: Are Progression Ads More Credible?
  • [92] Data Replicada #8: Is The Left-Digit Bias Stronger When Prices Are Presented Side-By-Side?
  • [90] Data Replicada #7: Does Displaying Multiple Copies of a Product Increase Its Perceived Effectiveness?
  • [89] Data Replicada #6: The Problem of (Weird) Differential Attrition
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