Dates in summer semester 2024
15 April 2024:
Mind your p-values! The pitfalls of statistical significance testing. Job Schepens (CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language")
Preparation: Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant. Psychological Science, 22(11), 1359–1366. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417632
29 April 2024:
Are most published research findings false? Do we have replication crisis in the humanities? Clara Stumm (Romanisches Seminar, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Preparation: Ioannidis JPA (2005). Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med 2(8): e124. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
27 May 2024:
Using Git for more than just code. Denis Arnold (University and City Library Cologne, C³RDM)
Preparation: The Turing Way Community. (2022). The Turing Way: A handbook for reproducible, ethical and collaborative research. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3233853. Chapter: Version Control
17 June 2024:
Questionable research practices (QRPs) in the humanities. Luke Plonsky (Department of English at Northern Arizona University)
Preparation: Plonsky, Luke, Dan Brown, Meishan Chen, Romy Ghanem, Maria Nelly Gutiérrez Arvizu, Daniel R. Isbell & Meixiu Zhang. 2024. “Significance sells”: Applied linguists’ views on questionable research practices. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 3(1). 100099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100099.
1 July 2024:
What the preregistration?! What is preregistration and does it make sense in the humanities? Clare Patterson (CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language") & Petra Schumacher (IDSL I, CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language")
Preparation: Chambers, C. (2019). The Registered Reports Revolution Lessons in Cultural Reform, Significance, 16(4), 23–27, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01299.x
15 July 2024:
Pick & Mix: The buffet approach to Open Science. Christina Bergmann (Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Preparation: Kathawalla, U. K., Silverstein, P., & Syed, M. (2021). Easing into open science: A guide for graduate students and their advisors. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18684
Organizers:
- Elen Le Foll (DCH/Department of Romance Studies)
- Denis Arnold (University and City Library & C³RDM)
- Gabriele Schwiertz (University and City Library)