Chris
2018-01-21, 09:05 AM
(2018-01-21, 07:58 AM)ersby Wrote: [ -> ]There's a new post on that blog about his email exchange with Bem.
https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2...he-future/
Thanks for drawing this to our attention. I see this includes the data files for the experiments published in "Feeling the Future", which Daryl Bem has agreed to make freely available for analysis, and detailed information in the emails about the timing and composition of the experiments.
There is also a comment from Bem about the issue of pilot experiments and selective reporting, flatly contradicting some of the suggestions that have been made:
"(One minor point: I did not spend $90,000 to conduct my experiments. Almost all of the participants in my studies at Cornell were unpaid volunteers taking psychology courses that offered (or required) participation in laboratory experiments. Nor did I discard failed experiments or make decisions on the basis of the results obtained.)
What I did do was spend a lot of time and effort preparing and discarding early versions of written instructions, stimulus sets and timing procedures. These were pretested primarily on myself and my graduate assistants, who served repeatedly as pilot subjects. If instructions or procedures were judged to be too time consuming, confusing, or not arousing enough, they were changed before the formal experiments were begun on “real” participants. Changes were not made on the basis of positive or negative results because we were only testing the procedures on ourselves.
When I did decide to change a formal experiment after I had started it, I reported it explicitly in my article. In several cases I wrote up the new trials as a modified replication of the prior experiment. That’s why there are more experiments than phenomena in my article: 2 approach/avoidance experiments, 2 priming experiments, 3 habituation experiments, & 2 recall experiments.)"
Furthermore, it sounds as though Schimmack has plans to write up his analysis for formal publication, and as though a separate article on Bem's study 6 is about to appear on his blog.
It feels as though more useful information about Bem's experiments has emerged in the last couple of weeks than in the previous six years of sterile wrangling - particularly the decline effect. Having said that, Bem himself seems more interested in organising pre-registered studies in the future, than in reconsidering his original work.