Questioning Some Metascience Assumptions, with Mark Rubin

Please join us for the fourth AIMOS Metascience Seminar.

Speaker: Mark Rubin

Summary: Metascience uses a scientific approach to understand and improve the scientific approach! In this presentation, I question some common assumptions in modern metascience. For example, I question whether exploratory research is more “tentative” than confirmatory research and whether questionable research practices such as HARKing (hypothesizing after the results are known) and undisclosed multiple testing are problematic. I discuss these and other metascience assumptions and argue that they may not be as problematic as commonly assumed.

Host: Jan Feld and AIMOS