2022
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13850
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Methodological integrity assessment in the mobile paradigm literature: A lesson for understanding opportunistic use of researcher degrees of freedom in psychology

Abstract: The mobile paradigm is one of the most well-known paradigms in developmental psychology and infant research (for review, see Sen & Gredebäck, 2021). Studies using this paradigm report that infants as young as 3 months of age can detect and learn the contingency between their kicking and the movement of a mobile tied to their leg with a ribbon (Rovee & Rovee, 1969;Rovee-Collier et al., 1978). Results also indicate that young infants can remember the visual characteristics of their environment after days and eve… Show more

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“…There appears to be an even more central issue with the design of the simulation. Sen and Gredebäck (2022) are taking a normal (or uniform) distribution as baseline, and then another such distribution as learning, and comparing the two by randomly choosing a baseline to compare to a (randomly) chosen pair of values for each 2 min of acquisition. This is equivalent to treating these two distributions as independent samples.…”
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“…There appears to be an even more central issue with the design of the simulation. Sen and Gredebäck (2022) are taking a normal (or uniform) distribution as baseline, and then another such distribution as learning, and comparing the two by randomly choosing a baseline to compare to a (randomly) chosen pair of values for each 2 min of acquisition. This is equivalent to treating these two distributions as independent samples.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In the accompanying paper, Sen and Gredebäck (2022) have raised questions about this literature. Their evaluation of 77 publications using the mobile paradigm confirmed the scientific rigor of the existing literature with no evidence of methodological biases in terms of p-hacking, reporting errors ("unintentional errors and fraud"), and variations in sample size ("opportunistic use of the stopping rule").…”
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