falsePosPsy_all: False Positive Psychology data.

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False Positive Psychology data.

Description

falsePosPsy_all is a dataset containing the data from 2 studies designed to highlight problematic research practices within psychology.

Usage

falsePosPsy_all

Format

A table with 78 cases (rows) and 19 variables (columns):

Details

Simmons, Nelson and Simonsohn (2011) published a controversial article with a necessarily false finding. By conducting simulations and 2 simple behavioral experiments, the authors show that flexibility in data collection, analysis, and reporting dramatically increases the rate of false-positive findings.

study

Study ID.

id

Participant ID.

aged

Days since participant was born (based on their self-reported birthday).

aged365

Age in years.

female

Is participant a woman? 1: yes, 2: no.

dad

Father's age (in years).

mom

Mother's age (in years).

potato

Did the participant hear the song 'Hot Potato' by The Wiggles? 1: yes, 2: no.

when64

Did the participant hear the song 'When I am 64' by The Beatles? 1: yes, 2: no.

kalimba

Did the participant hear the song 'Kalimba' by Mr. Scrub? 1: yes, 2: no.

cond

In which condition was the participant? control: Subject heard the song 'Kalimba' by Mr. Scrub; potato: Subject heard the song 'Hot Potato' by The Wiggles; 64: Subject heard the song 'When I am 64' by The Beatles.

root

Could participant report the square root of 100? 1: yes, 2: no.

bird

Imagine a restaurant you really like offered a 30 percent discount for dining between 4pm and 6pm. How likely would you be to take advantage of that offer? Scale from 1: very unlikely, 7: very likely.

political

In the political spectrum, where would you place yourself? Scale: 1: very liberal, 2: liberal, 3: centrist, 4: conservative, 5: very conservative.

quarterback

If you had to guess who was chosen the quarterback of the year in Canada last year, which of the following four options would you choose? 1: Dalton Bell, 2: Daryll Clark, 3: Jarious Jackson, 4: Frank Wilczynski.

olddays

How often have you referred to some past part of your life as “the good old days”? Scale: 11: never, 12: almost never, 13: sometimes, 14: often, 15: very often.

feelold

How old do you feel? Scale: 1: very young, 2: young, 3: neither young nor old, 4: old, 5: very old.

computer

Computers are complicated machines. Scale from 1: strongly disagree, to 5: strongly agree.

diner

Imagine you were going to a diner for dinner tonight, how much do you think you would like the food? Scale from 1: dislike extremely, to 9: like extremely.

See https://bookdown.org/hneth/ds4psy/B-2-datasets-false.html for codebook and more information.

Source

Articles

• 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. doi: 10.1177/0956797611417632

• Simmons, J.P., Nelson, L.D., & Simonsohn, U. (2014). Data from paper "False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant". Journal of Open Psychology Data, 2(1), e1. doi: 10.5334/jopd.aa

See files at https://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jopd.aa/ and the archive at https://zenodo.org/record/7664 for original dataset.

See Also

Other datasets: Bushisms, Trumpisms, countries, data_1, data_2, data_t1_de, data_t1_tab, data_t1, data_t2, data_t3, data_t4, dt_10, exp_num_dt, exp_wide, fame, flowery, fruits, outliers, pi_100k, posPsy_AHI_CESD, posPsy_long, posPsy_p_info, posPsy_wide, t3, t4, t_1, t_2, t_3, t_4, table6, table7, table8, table9, tb

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