Making our 'meta-hypotheses' clear: heterogeneity and the role of direct replications in science
| Autor: | Eirik Strømland |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Philosophy of science
05 social sciences Behavioural sciences Scientific literature 050105 experimental psychology Epistemology 03 medical and health sciences Philosophy 0302 clinical medicine Mature stage History and Philosophy of Science Argument Replication (statistics) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Early phase 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 11 |
| ISSN: | 1879-4920 1879-4912 |
| Popis: | This paper argues that some of the discussion around meta-scientific issues can be viewed as an argument over different “meta-hypotheses” – assumptions made about how different hypotheses in a scientific literature relate to each other. I argue that, currently, such meta-hypotheses are typically left unstated except in methodological papers and that the consequence of this practice is that it is hard to determine what can be learned from a direct replication study. I argue in favor of a procedure dubbed the “limited homogeneity assumption” – assuming very little heterogeneity of effect sizes when a literature is initiated but switching to an assumption of heterogeneity once an initial finding has been successfully replicated in a direct replication study. Until that has happened, we do not allow the literature to proceed to a mature stage. This procedure will elevate the scientific status of direct replication studies in science. Following this procedure, a well-designed direct replication study is a means of falsifying an overall claim in an early phase of a literature and thus sets up a hurdle against the canonization of false facts in the behavioral sciences. |
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