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Show Us Your Data: Connect the Dots, Improve Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2018

Sheen S. Levine*
Affiliation:
The University of Texas, Dallas

Extract

‘The truth is under attack’, I wrote earlier this decade (Levine, 2012). As the replication crisis became apparent, the alarm was timely. But now, a counter-attack is raging. In its arsenal are replications, open data, shared instruments, pre-registration of hypotheses and now – data visualizations.

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Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion
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Copyright © The International Association for Chinese Management Research 2018 

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