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Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences

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Why This Matters

This research highlights the importance of transparency and reproducibility in social and behavioral sciences by providing open access to data, code, and documentation through a living OSF repository. Such efforts enhance the credibility of scientific findings and facilitate ongoing validation and improvement within the industry. For consumers and researchers alike, this promotes more reliable and transparent scientific practices, ultimately advancing the quality of social science research.

Key Takeaways

Data, materials and code associated with this research that can be shared without restriction are publicly available in a living OSF repository (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/G5SNY)48. The living OSF repository represents improvements, fixes and additions that occur post-publication. Readers can also access a registered, archived version of this repository that is precisely the data, code and documentation as they existed upon publication of this paper (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/BZFGY). The repository includes all available documentation for replication attempts regardless of whether they were completed. This includes most of the data and code from the individual replication attempts, save for any data that is proprietary or protected that will not be made available, or for which analyst teams were uncertain or unable to confirm that they were allowed to share secondary data. It is possible that some data, materials or code that could be shared openly is not available at the time of publication. Readers are encouraged to contact the corresponding author or the authors of the relevant sub-project (Supplementary Table 3) to see if more research content can be shared in the living repository. This paper is part of a collection of papers reporting on the SCORE program. Documentation, data and code for the entire program are available at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DTZX4.