Shall We Really Do It Again? The Powerful Concept of Replication Is Neglected in the Social Sciences
Shall We Really Do It Again? The Powerful Concept of Replication Is Neglected in the Social Sciences
复制标题
DOI：
10.1037/a0015108
复制
发表时间：
2009-06-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Schmidt, Stefan
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
Schmidt, Stefan
复制是实证科学中验证事实的最重要工具之一。对复制概念的详细考察表明，这一概念和相关程序有许多不同的含义，但几乎没有系统的文献。本文从理论的角度分析了复制的概念。它表明，在社会科学的日常工作中，理论要求几乎得不到满足。有些要求根本不可行，而另一些则受到与出版有关的限制。提出了一种新的分类方案的基础上区分不同类型的复制功能的方法。其次，它将认为，复制解决现有知识和新知识之间的重要联系。要做到这一点，就必须明确和系统地加以应用。本文最后描述了如何做到这一点的程序，以及未来如何处理复制概念以充分利用其潜力的一组建议。
Replication is one of the most important tools for the verification of facts within the empirical sciences. A detailed examination of the notion of replication reveals that there are many different meanings to this concept and the relevant procedures, but hardly any systematic literature. This paper analyzes the concept of replication from a theoretical point of view. It demonstrates that the theoretical demands are scarcely met in everyday work within the social sciences. Some demands are just not feasible, whereas others are constricted by restrictions relating to publication. A new classification scheme based on a functional approach that distinguishes between different types of replication is proposed. Next, it will be argued that replication addresses the important connection between existing and new knowledge. To do so it has to be applied explicitly and systematically. The paper ends with a description of procedures how this could be done and a set of recommendations how to handle the concept of replication in the future to exploit its potential to the full.