What is Critical Metascience?
Metascience is the science of science. Critical metascience takes a step back to question some common assumptions, approaches, problems, and solutions in metascience. Hence, it has also been described as meta-meta-science!
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For a more in-depth explanation of critical metascience, please see this post. For a selection of critical metascience articles, please see:
Who Runs the Blog?
I’m Mark Rubin, a professor of psychology at Durham University, UK. In the area of metascience, I’ve argued that it's not always problematic to engage in questionable research practices such as hypothesizing after the results are known (HARKing) and uncorrected multiple testing. I've also criticized some science reforms, such as preregistration and stricter adherence to Neyman and Pearson's approach to statistical hypothesis testing, and I've written about what I call questionable metascience practices. Nonetheless, I'm generally in favour of some other open science reforms, such as open access articles, preprints, and open data and materials. For further information about my work in this area, please visit my Google Sites webpage.
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BlueSky: @markrubin.bsky.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrubin1/
Email: Mark-Rubin@outlook.com
Guest Contributors
Guest contributors to the blog include Sheena F. Bartscherer, Tom Hostler, Carol Ting, and Sven Ulpts. If you’re interested in writing something for the blog, please get in touch at Mark-Rubin@outlook.com
PDFs of Blog Posts
A selection of articles from this blog have been published as PDF preprints here.
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