Brian Nosek on the Reproducibility Project

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🗓️ 16 November 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia and the Center for Open Science talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Reproducibility Project--an effort to reproduce the findings of 100 articles in three top psychology journals. Nosek talks about the findings and the implications for academic publishing and the reliability of published results.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
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0:25.8	going back to 2006.
0:28.3	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.0	Today is November 6th, 2015, and my guest is Brian Nozick, Professor of Psychology
0:41.4	at the University of Virginia and co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open
0:45.7	Science.
0:46.7	Brian, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:49.0	Thanks for having me back.
0:50.6	Now, you were guest about three years ago.
0:52.4	I think you would just start at the reproducibility project, which was an attempt to reproduce results
1:00.5	in particular in starting in psychology.
1:04.0	The first results for that project have now been published.
1:06.6	So I thought it'd be a great time to review that whole enterprise and have you back on
1:11.4	to see what you found and where you're going in the future.
1:14.7	I want to start there with some background.
1:17.0	What does it mean for a result to be reproducible?
1:21.7	Are there different ways of thinking about it?
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