The ManyBabies Project
tl;dr: Introducing and organizing a ManyLabs study for infancy research. Please comment or email me ( mcfrank (at) stanford.edu ) if you would like to join the discussion list or contribute to the project. Introduction The last few years have seen increasing acknowledgement that there are flaws in the published scientific literature � in psychology and elsewhere (e.g., Ioannidis, 2005 ). Even more worrisome is that self-corrective processes are not as fast or as reliable as we might hope. For example, in the reproducibility project, which was published this summer (RPP, project page here ), 100 papers were sampled from top journals, and one replication of each was conducted. This project revealed a disturbingly low rate of success for seemingly well-powered replications. And even more disturbing, although many of the target papers had a large impact, most still had not been replicated independently seven years later (outside of RPP). I am worried that the sa...