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Editorial
Nature 444, 653-654 (7 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444653b; Published online 6 December 2006
A fair share
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Abstract
The concept of sharing primary data is generating unnecessary angst in the psychology community.
In psychology there is little tradition of making the data on which researchers base their statistical analyses freely available to others after publication. This makes it difficult for anyone to independently reanalyse research results, and prevents small data sets from being combined for meta-analysis, or large ones mined for fresh insights or perspectives.
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