This Article Abstract Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in Web of Science Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Firebaugh, G. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Replication Data Sets and Favored-Hypothesis Bias

Comment on Jeremy Freese (2007) and Gary King (2007)

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, firebaug@ pop.psu.edu.

Jeremy Freese makes the case for data sharing as a condition of publication for quantitative research in sociology, and Gary King tells us of a Dataverse Network under construction that is designed to routinize the process of posting and storing such data sets. No matter how user-friendly that network turns out to be, it is clear that no system is entirely cost-free, either for researchers or for journal editors. It is important, then, to determine whether the benefits of mandatory data sharing (or ``data relinquishment,'' as Herrnson calls it) would outweigh the costs. In this comment, the author discusses the issue from his vantage point as a former editor and concludes that the benefits of such a requirement most likely would exceed the costs.

Key Words: data dredging • data sharing • peer review • replication • transparency in science • verification

References

• American Sociological Association. 1999. Code of Ethics and Policies and Procedures of the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics. Washington, DC: ASA. http://www.asanet.org/galleries/default-file/Code%20of%20Ethics.pdf
• Firebaugh, Glenn. 2008. Seven Rules for Social Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Freese, Jeremy. 2007. ``Replication Standards for Quantitative Social Science: Why Not Sociology?'' Sociological Methods & Research 36:153-72.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
• Herrnson, Paul S. 1995. ``Replication, Verification, Secondary Analysis, and Data Collection in Political Science.'' PS: Political Science and Politics 28:452-55.[CrossRef]
• Ho, Daniel E., Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth A. Stuart. 2007. Matching as Non-parametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference. Political Analysis 15:199-236.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
• King, Gary. 1995. ``Replication, Replication.'' PS: Political Science and Politics 28:444-52.[CrossRef]
• King, Gary. 2007. ``An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing.'' Sociological Methods & Research 36:173-99.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
• Meier, Kenneth J. 1995. ``Replication: A View From the Streets.'' PS: Political Science and Politics 28:456-58.[CrossRef]
• Sala-i-Martin, Xavier X. 1997. ``I Just Ran Two Million Regressions.'' American Economic Review 87 (2): 178-83.[Web of Science]

Sociological Methods & Research, Vol. 36, No. 2, 200-209 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0049124107306663


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?

This Article Abstract Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in Web of Science Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Firebaugh, G. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?