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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Reproducibility in Science

Background:

  • The scientific community faces a replication crisis, prompting large-scale replication projects.
  • Assessing the reliability of research findings is crucial for scientific progress.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a novel statistical model for forecasting replication study outcomes.
  • To assess the extent of effect inflation and heterogeneity in replication data.
  • To examine the utility of statistical significance as a sole criterion for replication success.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from four large-scale replication projects.
  • Developed a probabilistic forecasting model incorporating effect inflation and heterogeneity.
  • Evaluated model performance using discrimination, calibration, and sharpness metrics.
  • Compared the novel model against a naive model lacking inflation and heterogeneity considerations.

Main Results:

  • The novel model demonstrated good predictive performance for effect estimates in two of four datasets.
  • Predictive performance was substantially improved compared to the naive model in the remaining two datasets.
  • Results suggest significant inflation in original study estimates and expected heterogeneity between original and replication effects.
  • Non-significant replication results can be statistically compatible with significant original findings.

Conclusions:

  • Original research estimates may be inflated due to publication bias or questionable research practices.
  • Heterogeneity between original and replication effects is a common occurrence.
  • Relying solely on statistical significance for replication assessment may be inadequate.
  • The developed statistical methods and datasets are available in the R package ReplicationSuccess.