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Exposing and overcoming the fixed-effect fallacy through crowd science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2022

Wilson Cyrus-Lai ,
Warren Tierney ,
Martin Schweinsberg  and
Eric Luis Uhlmann Open the ORCID record for Eric Luis Uhlmann [Opens in a new window]
Wilson Cyrus-Lai
Affiliation:
Organisational Behaviour Area, INSEAD, Singapore wilson-cyrus.lai@insead.edu; eric.luis.uhlmann@gmail.com
Warren Tierney
Affiliation:
Organisational Behaviour Area/Marketing Area, INSEAD, Singapore warren.tierney@insead.edu
Martin Schweinsberg
Affiliation:
Martin Schweinsberg, Organisational Behaviour Area, ESMT Berlin, 10178, Berlin Germany. martin.schweinsberg@esmt.org
Eric Luis Uhlmann
Affiliation:
Organisational Behaviour Area, INSEAD, Singapore wilson-cyrus.lai@insead.edu; eric.luis.uhlmann@gmail.com
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Abstract

By organizing crowds of scientists to independently tackle the same research questions, we can collectively overcome the generalizability crisis. Strategies to draw inferences from a heterogeneous set of research approaches include aggregation, for instance, meta-analyzing the effect sizes obtained by different investigators, and parsing, attempting to identify theoretically meaningful moderators that explain the variability in results.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e8
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