Exposing and overcoming the fixed-effect fallacy through crowd science

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Wilson Cyrus-Lai, Warren Tierney, Martin Schweinsberg, Eric Luis Uhlmann

2022 Behavioral and Brain Sciences Vol. 45 Review Cited by 1 Quartile

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. Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.

Affiliations

Organisational Behaviour Area, Insead, Singapore; Organisational Behaviour Area/Marketing Area, Insead, Singapore; Martin Schweinsberg, Organisational Behaviour Area, Esmt Berlin, Berlin, 10178, Germany