Foreword to papers on magnetic sensitivity in birds

Griffin, Donald R.

doi:10.3758/bf03204953

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“…This was achieved by Bookman (1977) using pigeons in a flyway. But in 1987, after informal discussions among interested researchers suggested widespread failures to replicate the effect systematically, four of the negative findings were assembled and published in a special section of Animal Learning & Behavior. In the introduction, Griffin (1987) remarked that ''Many other experiments of this general kind have led to negative results, which are not ordinarily published' ' (p. 108). This story illustrates both the importance of systematic replication in science and the fact that negative results may be published slowly (or not at all).…”

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On Science and the Discriminative Law of Effect

Davison

Nevin²

2005

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

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This article considers the process of the dissemination of scientific findings from the point of view of the discriminative law of effect. We assume that the purpose of science is to describe the state of the world in an unbiased and accurate manner. We then consider a number of challenges to the unbiased consensual development of science that arise from differences between science that is done, submitted for publication, and published. These challenges arise from the differential reinforcers for both research and publication delivered by journals and editors for novel results, the undervaluation of systematic replication and findings of invariance, and general lack of reinforcers for failed replications. All these challenges bias science toward searching for, reporting, and valuing novel results and consequently lead to a biased and erroneous view of the world. We suggest that science should be approached more conservatively, and that a reevaluation of the value of replication, and especially failed replication, is in order.

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