Exposing and overcoming the fixed-effect fallacy through crowd science

Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Feb 10:45:e8. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21000297.

Abstract

By organizing crowds of scientists to independently tackle the same research questions, we can collectively overcome the generalizability crisis. Strategies to draw inferences from a heterogeneous set of research approaches include aggregation, for instance, meta-analyzing the effect sizes obtained by different investigators, and parsing, attempting to identify theoretically meaningful moderators that explain the variability in results.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Crowding*
  • Humans