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Reliability and replicability in infant research: A commentary on Byers-Heinlein et al. (2021)
Infant and Child Development ( IF 1.776 ) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 , DOI: 10.1002/icd.2330
Francesco Margoni 1
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Byers-Heinlein et al. (2021) argue that a greater focus on reliability in infant research is much needed and desirable for the field. Moreover, they offer a number of possible solutions to increase reliability in infant research. Here, I do not discuss the suitability of the offered solutions. Instead, I further develop the authors' argument by considering the worryingly downstream consequences of low reliability for the very possibility of drawing meaningful inferences from the results of replication studies. I argue that the sources of error related to sampling and measurement greatly affect the estimates, resulting in confidence intervals being often very wide. Consequently, interpreting the differences between small-scale original and replication studies becomes a meaningless task, which, I maintain, could be replaced by a meta-analytic mindset and the habit of fully incorporating uncertainty in the reasoning about research findings.

中文翻译:

婴儿研究中的可靠性和可复制性:对 Byers-Heinlein 等人的评论。(2021)

拜尔斯-海因莱因等人。(2021)认为,该领域非常需要和可取地更加关注婴儿研究的可靠性。此外,它们提供了许多可能的解决方案来提高婴儿研究的可靠性。在这里,我不讨论所提供解决方案的适用性。相反,我通过考虑低可靠性的令人担忧的下游后果来进一步发展作者的论点,因为从复制研究的结果中得出有意义的推论的可能性非常大。我认为与抽样和测量相关的误差来源极大地影响了估计,导致置信区间通常非常宽。因此,解释小规模原创研究和复制研究之间的差异成为一项毫无意义的任务,我认为,
更新日期:2022-05-09
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