Session 1 – The case, and the three Rs

The term opens on the case that every later session works on, and on the vocabulary problem that gives the course its name. Reproducibility, robustness and replicability are three different operations, and the paper at the centre of the course was put through all three with three different verdicts.

Work through	What you do	Timing
Course overview	Read what the exercise is, what the six steps of it are, and what you will need installed.	15 minutes
Resources – Glossary	Learn the difference between reproducibility, robustness and replicability, then read the SCORE dossier table further down the same page, which sets out the three activities that this one paper went through and the outcome of each.	40 minutes
Exercise overview	Read the claim as it was put to the analysts, the coefficient published by the original author (OA), and the table of what five independent analysts found when they reanalysed it.	45 minutes

By the end of the session you have written one paragraph stating the claim in your own words and naming what the reproduction, the robustness reanalysis and the replication each returned on this paper.