Reposted from LSE Blog. When academic studies get things wrong, it is often blamed on misconduct and fraud. Yet, as we argue in a recent post with Michael Ganslmeier , even good-faith research, conducted using standard methods and transparent data, can produce contradictory conclusions.
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New publication on estimating the Extent and Sources of Model Uncertainty in Political Science now out in PNAS
Together with Dr Michael Ganslmeier (University of Exeter), we have co-authored a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), titled Estimating the Extent and Sources of Model Uncertainty in Political Science. The article addresses a fundamental challenge in empirical social science: the extent to which published findings depend on defensible but ultimately variable modelling decisions.
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