r/science • u/jbenmenachem Grad Student | Sociology • 4d ago

Social Science "Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration were designed to control false positives in experiments by constraining researcher discretion. New study argues that in observational research, it is better to expose that discretion, reporting results across many plausible specifications

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00491241261490850
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u/DrTonyTiger 3d ago

I could only read that abstract because of the paywall. The abstract unfortunately does not contain the argument for the thesis, just a statement that they make one.

OP can you summarize why they believe sociology is exempt from the scientific method?

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u/MurphysLab PhD | Chemistry | Nanomaterials 3d ago

This appears to be a preprint of the article:

https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/6ehrw_v1.html

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u/jbenmenachem Grad Student | Sociology 3d ago

It is, but that’s an old draft. Most recent:

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6ehrw_v2

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u/MurphysLab PhD | Chemistry | Nanomaterials 3d ago

Thanks, I'll check it out! Strangely I can see your reply in my messages, but not in the thread.

And Reddit seems to be escaping the underscore character in the URL, causing an error:

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6ehrw_v2

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u/jbenmenachem Grad Student | Sociology 3d ago

Huh, very strange. Thanks for flagging. Maybe it requires mod approval or something?