Timothy Parker

Aug 6, 2024 | rand.org | Jessica Welburn |Annie Yu |Timothy Parker |De Bruhl

Funding for this research was made possible by the independent research and development provisions of RAND's contracts for the operation of its U.S. Department of Defense federally funded research and development centers. This publication is part of the RAND research report series. Research reports present research findings and objective analysis that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors.

Oct 30, 2023 | phys.org | Hannah Fraser |Elliot Gould |Timothy Parker

Over the past 20 years or so, there has been growing concern that many results published in scientific journals can't be reproduced. Depending on the field of research, studies have found efforts to redo published studies lead to different results in between 23% and 89% of cases.

Oct 29, 2023 | theconversation.com | Hannah Fraser |Elliot Gould |Timothy Parker

Over the past 20 years or so, there has been growing concern that many results published in scientific journals can’t be reproduced. Depending on the field of research, studies have found efforts to redo published studies lead to different results in between 23% and 89% of cases. To understand how different researchers might arrive at different results, we asked hundreds of ecologists and evolutionary biologists to answer two questions by analysing given sets of data.