Editorial decisions: Outraged

Editorial: Decisions! Decisions!

complexities, is still poorly understood in many circles. We tell students that there is no free lunch, that if you want to use a screen to identify everyone, or almost everyone, who might have a given abnormality, then you will have to accept that you will falsely identify many individuals who later turn out to be normal. In the jargon of decision analysis theory, high hit rate means high fals...

Editorial Decisions May Perpetuate Belief in Invalid Research Findings

Social psychology and related disciplines are seeing a resurgence of interest in replication, as well as actual replication efforts. But prior work suggests that even a clear demonstration that a finding is invalid often fails to shake acceptance of the finding. This threatens the full impact of these replication efforts. Here we show that the actions of two key players--journal editors and the...

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Editorial

Editorial

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