Verifiability Ratings of Articles in Social Science

Ten students obtained independently the "scientific verifiability scores" of fifty-five articles in three numbers each from the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, and the Political Science Quarterly. The intercorrelations between their ratings range from .712 to .940. Even the lowest of these correlations is extremely significant statistically. A combination of the ratings obtained by the four best judges eliminates all but .014 of the variance from scores which would be obtained from an indefinitely large group of such judges. In a supplementary study, two students who independently rated forty articles from the (British) Sociological Review obtained results which correlated with each other .968

Social science · Sociology · Variance (accounting) · Academic integrity and plagiarism · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills · Meta-analysis and systematic reviews · Psychology · Social Psychology