From: NPR
Can A Research Accelerator Solve The Psychology Replication Crisis?
The accelerator, which launched in 2017, aims to redo older psychology experiments but on a mass scale in several different settings. The effort is one of many targeting a problem that has plagued the discipline for years: the inability of psychologists to get consistent results across similar experiments, or the lack of reproducibility.
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The accelerator’s founder, Christopher Chartier, a psychologist at Ashland University in Ohio, modeled the project in part on physics experiments, which often have large international teams to help answer the big questions.
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Even at this modest pace, each accelerator project should produce knowledge “likely to be greater than that produced by 100 typical solo or small-team projects,” says Simine Vazire, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, who is not involved with the accelerator. “Even though it looks slow, it is actually likely to produce discoveries and knowledge at a faster rate than the heaps of little studies we are used to pumping out.”
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