Hello fellow science friends and welcome to Science of Slink! Today we are touching into the topic of replicating studies, data reliability, Plublication Bias, and ‘Publisher Perish.’ These are important topics that shed light on the reliability of the data we read as well as of what influences some data to not be reliable. On the topic of replicating studies and data reliability we discuss that there is a strong correlation between earlier studies, before around 2010, being tested for replication and no correlation being found. Replication is when you do a replicate a completed study to examine if you can find the same data or if the data is different. Today we are referencing studies such as menstrual cycles related to mood and medical replication studies.We touch on the likelihood of publicity based on the interest or “wow factor” of findings, also known as Plublication Bias. One example of publication bias is, if there is low correlation or no effect you are unlikely to get published. Publication bias tends to lean towards more extreem results and findings. This is one reason that human studies are harder to find, there is more variation between people than there would be for a purely scientific and mathematic study. Our last topic is something called “Publiher Perish” and this is when a researcher may fall into scientific misconduct. A researchers primary job is plublsihing scientific papers as frequently as possible, making them as interesting as possible. Due to publication bias and the fact that not all research is going to be interesting enough to publish, there is pressure to create something more interesting which can incentivize scientific misconduct.

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Edited by: Simone Rossette 

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Sources/Helpful Links: 

General overview of the replication crisis in psychology: 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/replication-crisis

The replication crisis (overview and what's changed since then): https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-023-00003-2 

Replication in evo psych specifically: 

https://replicationindex.com/category/evolutionary-psychology/ 

Helpful pop-schi overview of some of the issues with ovulation research in evolutionary psychology

https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/ovulation-research-women-replication-crisis.html