Department of Philosophy and Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Center for Economic Research (CentER), Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tiilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2018 Apr 12;13(4):e0194360. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194360. eCollection 2018.
Experimental philosophy (x-phi) is a young field of research in the intersection of philosophy and psychology. It aims to make progress on philosophical questions by using experimental methods traditionally associated with the psychological and behavioral sciences, such as null hypothesis significance testing (NHST). Motivated by recent discussions about a methodological crisis in the behavioral sciences, questions have been raised about the methodological standards of x-phi. Here, we focus on one aspect of this question, namely the rate of inconsistencies in statistical reporting. Previous research has examined the extent to which published articles in psychology and other behavioral sciences present statistical inconsistencies in reporting the results of NHST. In this study, we used the R package statcheck to detect statistical inconsistencies in x-phi, and compared rates of inconsistencies in psychology and philosophy. We found that rates of inconsistencies in x-phi are lower than in the psychological and behavioral sciences. From the point of view of statistical reporting consistency, x-phi seems to do no worse, and perhaps even better, than psychological science.
实验哲学（x-phi）是哲学和心理学交叉领域的一个年轻研究领域。它旨在通过使用传统上与心理和行为科学相关的实验方法来推进哲学问题的研究，例如零假设显著性检验（NHST）。受最近关于行为科学方法论危机的讨论的启发，人们对 x-phi 的方法论标准提出了质疑。在这里，我们关注这个问题的一个方面，即统计报告中不一致的速度。先前的研究已经检验了心理学和其他行为科学领域发表的文章在报告 NHST 结果时在统计上不一致的程度。在这项研究中，我们使用 R 包 statcheck 来检测 x-phi 中的统计不一致性，并比较了心理学和哲学中的不一致率。我们发现 x-phi 中的不一致率低于心理学和行为科学。从统计报告一致性的角度来看，x-phi 似乎表现得并不差，甚至可能更好，而不是像心理学科学那样。
