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  1. Mar 2017
    1. To achieve this goal,  [83] propose a method which can be run many times due to new derivations implied by an inverse functional property!

      This sentence might actually sound exciting if I knew what the author was talking about. This article was definitely written for an audience that would understand the jargon.

    2. [7]

      I don't like the way the author uses these links to reference papers. How hard is it to say "Pospiech and Felden note.."?? Using the numbered links instead of words really disrupts the flow while reading.

    3. Abstract

      The structure of this whole paragraph reminds me of the standardized testing in grade school where you had to write out the steps of your process in math problems. Like "First I did... Then I did... Finally I did this... etc."

  2. Jan 2017
    1. Statistical analyses

      Much jargon. Wow.

      The large amount of statistics jargon throughout the beginning and middle of the article made this a very dry read. It wasn't until the end of the article that I fully comprehended the point they were making.

    2. Effect sizes

      I wish they would have elaborated more at the beginning on the definition of effect sizes. It took a while to figure out what exactly they meant by the phrase, so it was very hard to read this article until that was understood.

    3. After this intensive effort to reproduce a sample of published psychological findings, how many of the effects have we established are true? Zero. And how many of the effects have we established are false? Zero. Is this a limitation of the project design? No. It is the reality of doing science, even if it is not appreciated in daily practice.

      This section drives home the point that science isn't perfect and that it changes often. The writer has essentially told the reader that it's okay to get different results than another research team. Getting different results is what drives innovation.

    4. We investigated the reproducibility rate of psychology not because there is something special about psychology, but because it is our discipline.

      I wonder if the reproducibility rate would be different if the study had been done on another science, like chemistry or physics....