Michelangelo Vianello, University of Padova, Assistant Professor
Michelangelo was our first researcher to complete his replication.
How did you become involved in the Reproducibility Project?
Brian Nosek invited me in November 2011. At that time, we were working on implicit measures of personality. I found the RP incredibly useful, worryingly ambitious, and extremely exciting. So I jumped in and tried to bring with me all the people I know. To be honest, so far I’ve only been able to persuade my wife (my kids are too young for this). But I keep trying!
What challenges did you face with your replication?
The stats were a real challenge. Most articles do not provide sufficient information to compute important statistics such as confidence intervals around the effect sizes, and if you don’t have the raw data and you don’t eat equations for breakfast (I don’t) you are going to spend a lot of time over it.
Do you have any advice for those research teams who have not yet completed their replication?
Keep your enthusiasm high. You are doing something great. The results of the Reproducibility Project will help steer our science in the right direction.
Use the power of a crowd sourced project, if you’re stuck with something, just ask. I did it, and the solution was there in three days. Amazing.
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Tracking Progress
To the left, you can see the current status of all of the replication teams. The x-asis shows each phase in the RP and the y-axis delineates the number of teams currently working on that phase. So far, 33 teams have completed data collection, and 14 teams have completed data collection, analysis, and reporting.
COS Moves In!
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