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Selective participation may undermine replication attempts

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arising from: Z. Rahwan et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1741-y (2019)

Replication is important to gain confidence in scientific results. However, there are several limitations to the conclusions that can be drawn from the study by Rahwan et al.1. In particular, it remains unclear to what extent the study is informative about the generalizability of our findings2 to other relevant contexts.

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    Alain Cohn

  2. Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Cohn, A., Fehr, E. & Maréchal, M.A. Selective participation may undermine replication attempts. Nature 575, E1–E2 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1729-7

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