Open Science Collaboration 2015 (psychology)

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Open Science Collaboration 2015 (psychology)

Reference: Open Science Collaboration (2015).

Research question: replications of a quasi-random sample of 100 experiments in psychology.

Data collection: The authors make a comprehensive dataset of results available with their paper. In BEAR we did not use the original studies, since all studies in that set have p < 0.05, only replications.

Data availability: The data file rpp_data.csv is available as part of the repository for the paper https://osf.io/ytpuq/overview under a CC0 1.0 Universal license.

Data processing: We derived z-values from the replication p-values assuming two-sided p-values (we use the replication p-value column, not the original-study p-value). We applied the sign of the replication correlation, so z-values are signed where that correlation is available. We treated p-values recorded as exactly 0 as truncated and recorded this as a lower bound on z (z-operator >); otherwise we treated p-values as exact (z-operator =). We retained the replication sample size as ss.

Model of z-values

The fitted mixture model is shown over the empirical distribution of absolute z-values. The solid line is a mixture of half-normals, with selection. The dashed line shows the distribution without selection. If there are inequalities (e.g. studies reporting p < 0.05) the histogram resamples values from the appropriate set.

OpenSciCollab: psychology mixture model plot

References

Open Science Collaboration. 2015. “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science.” Science 349 (6251): aac4716.