Replace the recurring impulse to solve psychology’s reproducibility woes by proposing new theories with a packaged, enforceable set of procedural reforms: mandatory preregistration and machine‑readable robustness maps (negative controls, E‑values, sibling designs), routine deposit of data/analysis code and individual‑participant data in escrow, and funder/journal enforcement (audit‑grade checks) before policy uptake.
— If implemented, these procedural standards would change what counts as actionable psychological evidence for schools, courts, and health agencies, reducing policy mistakes driven by fragile findings.
Arnold Kling
2026.01.12
100% relevant
Directly echoes Zlatkus & Kurzban’s claim (quoted in the article) that the replication crisis’s solution is procedural reform rather than new theoretical frameworks.
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