I've updated the marketing replication tracker through 2024. So far, 5 out of 45 (11%) of all direct replications of marketing studies (studies published in scientific marketing journals such as Journal of Consumer Research and Journal of Marketing Research). openmkt.org/research/rep...

If you had to cite an event that opened the "replication crisis" era, what would you point to?

What I learned from Analyzing 35,000 1-Star Reviews of Doctors' Offices charltondigital.com/what-i-learn...

I have a colada post coming on the interpretability of D+ and D- in the KS test. Seems nobody thinks of those values as particularly useful but they are. Any exceptions I should be aware of? Has anyone proposed they are interesting estimators on their own rather that mere test statistics?

Super excited about this opportunity to present my research (with Bart de Langhe and Phil Fernbach) on the risks of using marketing personas in segmentation analysis! Join us on Jan 9th at 12PM ET, register here: www.msi.org/events/msi-w...

The grad student blaming himself for not being able to replicate a famous psychology/cog-sci study

‘Super Size Me’: What happened when marketing researchers ordered a double retraction? retractionwatch.com/2023/11/09/s... @aaroncharlton.bsky.social is not happy

Anyone else think it was weird that NYTimes called Francesca Gino a Harvard professor, but Professors Nelson (Berkeley), Simmons (Wharton) and Simonsohn (ESADE) are "bloggers"? www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/b...

Translation: Our literature has no foundation.

Part 3: Falsified Data and Error in Andrew Wakefield's 1998 (Retracted) Vaccine-Autism Study www.awayclinic.com/post/falsifi...

Zoé Ziani (who isn't on BlueSky AFAICT) has posted a long post-mortem on the Gino-Ariely case. She explains how she came to suspect Gino’s work, the resistance she met during her Ph.D., her experience working with Data Colada, and the lessons business academia should learn from these scandals...

I'm sorry, but this anonymous op-ed from seven tenured professors at Harvard Business School re: the Gino case is the most chicken-shit use of tenure I have ever seen. It worsens my already poor assessment of HBS/Harvard www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...

I'll share a new chart here each day. Today's chart: The number of polio cases worldwide has been pushed down enormously over decades. 2 out of 3 strains of wild poliovirus have already been eradicated globally (in 2015 and 2019). But there's still a challenge ahead. /1

If you’re interested in joining our ECR meta-science event on 26th October in Amsterdam, please sign up by Thursday (12th October)! Sign-up form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm doing a series of short blog posts for about the Andrew Wakefield "vaccine-autism" hoax/grift. Part 1 focuses on the conflicts of interest. Wakefield was paid by a lawyer to find the problems so he could sue big pharma. www.awayclinic.com/post/andrew-...

Just finished editing Wikipedia. Another of Dan Ariely's stories has fallen apart. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Anyone aware of formal analyses of "fit index hacking" in CFA/SEM, e.g., making changes based on modification indices (such as correlating errors terms) to meet conventional fit benchmarks, but not disclosing this in the paper?

Reposting some of my favorite blog posts on OpenMKT.org. #1 --> Reviewing Pham’s “feeling the future” paper to illustrate how easy it is to unintentionally p-hack openmkt.org/blog/2023/re... Pham has publicly pushed back against every reform. Here I looked into why that is.