Willingness to Share Research Data Is Related to the Strength of the Evidence and the Quality of Reporting of Statistical Results
Jelte M. Wicherts; Marjan Bakker; Dylan Molenaar · 2011 · PLoS ONE
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The widespread reluctance to share published research data is often hypothesized to be due to the authors' fear that reanalysis may expose errors in their work or may produce conclusions that contradict their own. However, these hypotheses have not previously been studied systematically. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We related the reluctance to share research data for reanalysis to 1148 statistically significant results reported in 49 papers published in two major psychology journals. We found the reluctance to share data to be associated with weaker evidence (against the null hypothesis
Abstract by Jelte M. Wicherts; Marjan Bakker; Dylan Molenaar, PLoS ONE (2011) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0026828