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An Open Discussion on Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research

This CEGA Blog Forum builds on a seminal research meeting held at the University of California, Berkeley on December 7, 2012. The goal was to bring together a select interdisciplinary group of scholars – from biostatistics, economics, political science and psychology – with a shared interest in promoting transparency in empirical social science research.

There has been a flurry of activity regarding research transparency in recent years, within the academy and among research funders, driven by a recognition that too many influential research findings are fragile at best, if not entirely spurious or even fraudulent. But the increasingly heated debates on these…

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