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The meaning of a claim is its reproducibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2018

Jan P. de Ruiter
Jan P. de Ruiter*
Affiliation:
Departments of Computer Science and Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02115. [email protected]://sites.tufts.edu/hilab/
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Abstract

A scientific claim is a generalization based on a reported statistically significant effect. The reproducibility of that claim is its scientific meaning. Anything not explicitly mentioned in a scientific claim as a limitation of the claim's scope means that it implicitly generalizes over these unmentioned aspects. Hence, so-called “conceptual” replications that differ in these unmentioned aspects from the original study are legitimate, and necessary to test the generalization implied by the original study's claim.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e125
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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