Once is not enough: Why we need replication

Abstract:

Imagine you land on an uncharted planet where no human has been before. For one reason or another, you are unable to leave the spaceship to explore the unknown, and you can only gather information about the planet through the spaceship windows. You look out and see a strange being: an alien of a shape, size, and color that you could have never imagined. You are extremely surprised, and you carry on looking at it in order to unlock the mystery and form an idea of what sort of thing you have in your sights. Are you sure that what your eyes are seeing (and your brain is perceiving) through the window really is a true likeness of the outside world? What if the food you had to eat last night had gone off? What if you are seeing things, and there really is nothing out there? What would you do to make sure?

Año de publicación:

2016

Keywords:

• Conceptual replications
• empirical study
• Artifactual results
• Identical repetitions

Fuente:

scopus