Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Software searches out reproducibility issues in scientific papers
Researchers are getting better at communicating science in a rigorous and reproducible way, according to a text-mining analysis of around...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 20, 2019
- 1 min
A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis
In 2008, psychologists proposed that when humans are shown an unfamiliar face, they judge it on two main dimensions: trustworthiness and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 12, 2019
- 1 min
It’s okay to lose confidence in your previous research
You may not believe what you believed before. It might feel as if you’ve squandered your grant money on research that you no longer stand...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
Research on research gains steam
The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 3, 2019
- 1 min
Effort to reproduce Brazilian research experiments set to begin
A project aiming to reproduce dozens of biochemistry experiments originally conducted in Brazil is set to commence this month. The full...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 21, 2019
- 1 min
Statistics experts urge scientists to rethink the p-value
Misuse of commonly used statistical methods have for long plagued scholarly research, resulting in big claims being drawn from weak...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 30, 2018
- 1 min
How Power Poses Took Over the World
Every year, people at hundreds of schools and workplaces around the world are taught how to stand like Superman. The rationale behind...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 8, 2018
- 1 min
Can automated tools reliably rate research reproducibility?
Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 23, 2018
- 1 min
"Loss Of Confidence Project" Prods Scientists to Do the Right Thing
I spoke to Heather Goldstone of Living Lab Radio about the Loss of Confidence project, which I recently wrote a feature article about for...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 2, 2018
- 1 min
Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That.
Many areas of science are facing questions over the reproducibility of findings reported in scholarly literature. Researchers haven't...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 5, 2018
- 1 min
Can auditing scientific research help fix its reproducibility crisis?
Scientific literature is in a sorry state of affairs. More and more research is being published every year, while widespread concerns...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 2, 2018
- 1 min
A Wayback Machine for Source Code
The web is fragile. In March 2016, software developer Azer Koçulu famously broke the internet by taking 11 lines of open source computer...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 20, 2018
- 1 min
Blockchain to help scholarly publishing fight fraud
A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 22, 2018
- 1 min
Online tool calculates reproducibility scores of PubMed papers
A new online tool unveiled 19 January measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 28, 2017
- 1 min
Controversial software is proving surprisingly accurate at spotting errors in psychology papers
When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 8, 2017
- 1 min
A new ‘accelerator’ aims to bring big science to psychology
A study of how people perceive human faces will kick off a new initiative to massively scale up, accelerate, and reproduce psychology...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 13, 2017
- 1 min
Guest appearance on Science Friday: Could Lowering The P-Value Threshold Benefit Research?
I was invited to Science Friday to talk about the recent debate around lowering p-value thresholds. Listen to the podcast here. I...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 4, 2017
- 1 min
New metric takes a crack at solving science’s credibility problem
A newly proposed, citation-based metric assesses the veracity of scientific claims by evaluating the outcomes of subsequent replication...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 3, 2017
- 1 min
Research papers are becoming less readable
Researchers are proposing ways to make scientific texts clearer amid concerns that scholarly literature is getting harder to read. The...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 19, 2017
- 1 min
‘One-size-fits-all’ threshold for P values under fire
Researchers are at odds over when to dub a discovery 'significant'. In July, 72 researchers took aim at the P value, calling for a lower...
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