SUPPORT FOR A JOURNAL OF REPLICATION STUDIES.

SUPPORT FOR A JOURNAL OF REPLICATION STUDIES. Of the ten original papers selected by Dr. Gonon’s team, replication studies showed that eight of them were either wrong or questionable. A replication increases the sample size. Since exact duplication is difficult, it also provides information about whether other factors affected the original result. Let me repeat what I said three years ago here: “…the first study in a policy area is easily published. Later studies don’t seem to be pathbreaking, and so they are harder to publish and don’t further careers….I think there should be a journal (or journals) of replicated results to reward studies which follow on promising results.”