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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As part of our Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) seminars, next Wednesday (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">19</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><sup style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</span></sup></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> October,
5.30pm </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) we have </span><strong style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 111, 201);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 111, 201);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201);">Professor
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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I think this topic is really important to consider in terms of our research process and workflow. <br>
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Hope to see some of you there.<br>
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Best, Hannah<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201);"><strong>Abstract </strong></span><br>
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<p>Despite the explosion in the number of research publications it is impossible to ‘reproduce’ the results of most analyses that are published. This is because information on how the work is undertaken in seldom made available. Most researchers will have a
happy, or possibly even a terrifying, early educational memory of being told to “show their working out”. Somewhere between primary school and graduate school this requirement has evaporated. Currently published research is far from transparent and a culture
of 'trust me’ rather than a culture of 'show me’ exists. </p>
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<p>In this presentation I make an appeal for researchers to routinely provide enough information so that others can check that results are accurate, and that correct inferences and conclusions are reported in published work. This transparency will also allow
others to test the robustness of the original piece of research, for example by employing new or additional data and alternative methods. I highlight the obstacles that are commonly encountered and provide some practicable steps for rendering research ‘reproducible’.
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<p>I argue that conventional research publications should, at best, be regarded as a palimpsest of the ‘real work’ undertaken within the data analytical process. Drawing on insights from computer science and other disciplines that have been engaged in e-Research
I illustrate how contemporary digital resources could provide a useful and effective aid to making social science research more easily reproducible. I propose a set of guidelines which researchers should follow in order to enhance the reproducibility of their
research. I conclude by suggesting a set of benchmarks against which the reproducibility can be assessed.</p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#1F497D">Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith <br>
Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG)</span></p>
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Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences <br>
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Stirling, FK9 4LA <br>
Scotland <br>
Tel: 01786 467674 <br>
Fax: 01786 467641 <br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk" id="NoLP"><span style="color:#1F497D">h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk</span></a>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#1F497D">Home page: <a href="https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925" id="NoLP">
<span style="color:#1F497D">https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925</span></a></span></p>
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