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Faculty members and graduate students at the University of Minnesota have formed a workshop to hold discussions about reproducibility in research studies.
The discussions come during a national movement to replicate research in social science fields, such as psychology. The movement has shown that many previous studies are not reliable. After discussions last spring regarding ways the University can address these research practices, the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science designed workshops for faculty and students to discuss ways to develop replicable research methods.
“Any scientific discipline will depend upon reproducible findings, that’s how you build a science,” said Matt McGue, a professor in the Department of Psychology.
The Reproducibility Working Group meets biweekly this semester to discuss the issue of reproducibility in psychological research and focus on topics such as measurement.
Alan Love, director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, said the purpose of holding these conversations across campus is for researchers across all disciplines to be actively thinking about the sort of complex issues within their own methods...
Faculty members and graduate students from the philosophy, psychology and statistics departments have been attending the workshops. McGue said all members offer a unique perspective to the discussion of reproducibility as there are intersections across all three areas.
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Source: Minnesota Daily
