A reminder on millisecond timing accuracy and potential replication failure in computer-based psychology experiments: An open letter
A reminder on millisecond timing accuracy and potential replication failure in computer-based psychology experiments: An open letter
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DOI：
10.3758/s13428-015-0577-0
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发表时间：
2016-03-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Plant, Richard R.
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作者：
Plant, Richard R.
整个心理学领域正在发生一场持续的“复制危机”，研究人员、资助者和公众都在质疑一些科学研究的结果及其所依据的数据的有效性。然而，很少有人考虑到现代心理学中越来越多的研究是使用计算机进行的。会不会仅仅是用于运行实验本身的硬件和软件或实验生成器本身就是毫秒计时误差和随后的复制失败的原因？这篇文章提醒我们，心理学研究中毫秒计时的准确性仍然是一个重要的问题，需要注意确保研究可以在当前的计算机硬件和软件上重复进行。
There is an ongoing 'replication crisis' across the field of psychology in which researchers, funders, and members of the public are questioning the results of some scientific studies and the validity of the data they are based upon. However, few have considered that a growing proportion of research in modern psychology is conducted using a computer. Could it simply be that the hardware and software, or experiment generator, being used to run the experiment itself be a cause of millisecond timing error and subsequent replication failure? This article serves as a reminder that millisecond timing accuracy in psychology studies remains an important issue and that care needs to be taken to ensure that studies can be replicated on current computer hardware and software.