Exposing and overcoming the fixed-effect fallacy through crowd science

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

Published: 2022-02-10

Abstract

AbstractBy 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.