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Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature, says Malte Elson go.nature.com/4dIi1Nv

My paper is out in @PNASNews! I replicate a paper on the impact of COVID vaccine mandates on vaccine uptake. Removing a single bad control variable sign-flips several of the paper’s headline results. The reply’s findings are also not robust. 1/x pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🚨Replication alert🚨 I reanalyze Moretti (2021), which tests for the effect of tech cluster size on innovation. I find that the event study and instrumental variable estimates—necessary for a causal interpretation—are caused by coding errors. #EconTwitter 1/

🚨 New Video Alert! 🚨 Watch @ianhussey take us through the exciting developments in error detection, featuring @error_reviews, the innovative pre-registration assessment tool by @psycholojamie, and much more. Video: tinyurl.com/36aekd95 Slides: osf.io/b7es8/

Challenge accepted. Here are a few comments on the paper after starting to wade through its massive content. The paper in question is #Sec55" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/🧵

New: use GRIM or GRIMMER to test reported statistics for consistency. Are these values even possible? Find out with the error detection webapp! Test many values at once, get summary statistics, and download your results. 🧵 1/5 errors.shinyapps.io/scrutiny/

New Data Colada post. Harvard's Gino Report allows us to re-construct what Harvard says is one of Gino's "original" data sets. We can compare that to the posted data to see how the data were altered datacolada.org/118