Many Labs

Last updated on Nov 3, 2021

Definition: A crowdsourcing initiative led by the Open Science Collaboration (2015) whereby several hundred separate research groups from various universities run replication studies of published effects. This initiative is also known as “Many Labs I” and was subsequently followed by a “Many Labs II” project that assessed variation in replication results across samples and settings. Similar projects include ManyBabies, EEGManyLabs, and the Psychological Science Accelerator.

Related terms: Collaboration, Many analysts, Many Labs I, Many Labs II, Open Science Collaboration, Replication

References: Ebersole et al. (2016), Frank et al. (2017), Klein et al. (2014), Klein et al. (2018), Moshontz et al. (2018), Open Science Collaboration (2015), & Pavlov et al. (2020)

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