SSP Forum: Nicholas Alvaro Coles on Big Team Science

The
Symbolic Systems Forum
presents

Addressing the “Multiverse Problem” via Big Team Science

Nicholas A. Coles
Center for the Study of Language and Information

Monday, November 1, 2021
1:15-12:15 pm
Zoom recording

ABSTRACT:

In this talk, Nicholas Coles will discuss the “Multiverse Problem”: the idea that the many decision points that researchers reach in the pursuit of knowledge have multiplicative consequences for the conclusions that they make. Nicholas will discuss how this Multiverse Problem can constrain the generalizability of some research endeavors—and he will provide an overview of how this problem is being addressed by a global research consortium called the Psychological Science Accelerator.

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