Table 4.
item |
round 1 |
round 2 |
round 3 |
decision | |||
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Mdn | IQR | Mdn | IQR | Mdn | IQR | ||
the relevance of the original study for your current line of research or the field you work in | 7 | 2 | include | ||||
your involvement in the line of research that the replication target is concerned with (e.g. self-replication, planning to build on the study in the future) | 6 | 3 | revise | ||||
the degree of involvement you have in previous or upcoming projects related to the replication target (e.g. self-replication, planning to build on the study in the future) | 6 | 3.5 | revise | ||||
your personal stakes in the replication target’s results (e.g. self-replication, financial stakes or other potential conflicts of interest, planning to build on the replication target results in future research, etc.) | 7.5 | 3 | no consensus | ||||
the current strength of evidence in favour of the original claim (e.g. a high/low Bayes factor, a wide/narrow confidence interval, a high/low p-value) | 7 | 1 | include | ||||
your personal belief about the truthfulness of the original claim (e.g. consensus in findings, replication attempts) | 5 | 2 | exclude | ||||
your expectations about whether the original claim would replicate or not | 5 | 2 | exclude | ||||
the importance of the original study for research (e.g. often/rarely cited, under/over-studied, published in high/low impact journal) | 7 | 1.5 | include | ||||
the theoretical relevance of the original claim | 8 | 2 | include | ||||
implications of the original claim (e.g. for practice, policy or clinical work) | 8 | 2 | include | ||||
the clarity and replicability of the original protocol (e.g. completeness and clarity of the methodological description, accessibility of the materials) | 6 | 4 | re-evaluate | ||||
— | 4 | 4.25 | revise | ||||
the (un)clarity and (un)replicability of the original protocol (e.g. completeness and clarity of the methodological description, accessibility of the materials) | 7.5 | 2 | include | ||||
the sample size of the original study (too small or too large) | 7 | 2 | include | ||||
flaws of the original design (e.g. in- an exclusion criteria, potential confounds) | 8 | 1.5 | include | ||||
operationalization of the original study’s measures (e.g. validity, reliability, and bias) | 7 | 3 | re-evaluate | ||||
— | 7 | 2.25 | revise | ||||
operationalization of the original study’s measures (e.g. validity, reliability, and bias) and how this impacts the credibility of the original study | 7 | 1.25 | include | ||||
concerns that questionable research practices have been employed (e.g. presence/absence of preregistration, potential of p-hacking or HARKing) | 7 | 2 | include | ||||
generalizability of the original finding (e.g. cultural and temporal context, representativeness of the sample) | 7 | 2 | include | ||||
the resources available to you for replicating the original study (e.g. funding, time, equipment, study materials, or data) | 8 | 2 | include | ||||
the adaptability of the original study design (e.g. mode of data collection, whether the study can be translated into other languages, contexts) | 6 | 2.5 | re-evaluate | ||||
— | 6 | 2.25 | revise | ||||
the adaptability of the original study design (e.g. whether data is collected online or on-site, whether the study can be translated into other languages or applied to different contexts, etc.) | 6.5 | 1 | exclude | ||||
your previous experience and expertise with regards to the original study | 5 | 4 | revise | ||||
you (i.e. all replicating authors) previous experience and expertise with regards to the original study | 5.5 | 3 | revise | ||||
your (i.e. the replicating team as a whole) presence or absence of previous experience or expertise on the original study as a practical concern | 7 | 2 | include | ||||
educational value of conducting the replication study (e.g. for a thesis or student project) | 5 | 3.5 | re-evaluate | ||||
— | 3 | 4 | re-evaluate | ||||
— | 5 | 1.5 | exclude |
Note: Re-evaluate means that participants received qualitative feedback and were asked to rate the same item again.