Dados Bibliográficos

AUTOR(ES) Jeremy Freese
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University
ANO 2007
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Sociological Methods and Research
ISSN 0049-1241
E-ISSN 1552-8294
EDITORA Annual Reviews (United States)
DOI 10.1177/0049124107306659
CITAÇÕES 32
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 62d79f72d69477d77d48acf0061c97d4

Resumo

The credibility of quantitative social science benefits from policies that increase confidence that results reported by one researcher can be verified by others. Concerns about replicability have increased as the scale and sophistication of analyses increase the possible dependence of results on subtle analytic decisions and decrease the extent to which published articles contain full descriptions of methods. The author argues that sociology should adopt standards regarding replication that minimize its conceptualization as an ethical and individualistic matter and advocates for a policy in which authors use independent online archives to deposit the maximum possible information for replicating published results at the time of publication and are explicit about the conditions of availability for any necessary materials that are not provided. The author responds to several objections that might be raised to increasing the transparency of quantitative sociology in this way and offers a candidate replication policy for sociology.

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