Following an open comment period seeking community input, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released its first-ever Strategic Plan for Data Science in recognition of the challenges inherent to storing, managing, and publishing behavioral and other data. “Accessible, well-organized, secure, and efficiently operated data resources are critical enablers of More
The Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking has issued a report that points to significant new opportunities in research and leadership for psychological scientists with expertise in areas including judgment and decision making, analysis and research design, data privacy and ethics issues, and more. More
A political data firm’s use of Facebook data for targeted messaging reveals the exploitation of psychometric data that some psychological scientists have warned about. More
In our annual nod to the United States’ college basketball tournament, the Observer reports on data-analysis techniques, methodological advances, and the latest initiatives for improving reproducibility. More
An analytic approach sheds light on a literature full of contradictory findings, revealing the multiverse of results that can emerge when researchers make different decisions about how to examine the same dataset. More
Could replicability issues in psychological science stem in part from problems with measurement? Two scientists explain why strong methods cannot save research from weak measures. More
