Cristobal Young points us to this post on replication packages; he writes, “we found that only 28% of sociologists would/could provide a replication package.”

I read the comments. The topic arouses a lot of passion. Some of the commenters are pretty rude! And, yes, I’m glad to see this post, given my own frustrating experience trying to re-analyze a sociology study. To me, one of the big problems is the idea that once a paper is published, it is considered to be Truth, by the authors, by promotion committees, by the ASR and the NYT. Take that away, and everything changes: all of a sudden there’s not so much incentive to hide your data.