Is Critical Human Geography Research Replicable?

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Table 1. Factors inhibiting reproducibility and replicability in critical social science (drawing from Baker 2016)

Factor	Some reasons it may occur in critical social science
Selective reporting	Concern for the well-being of human subjects
Pressure to publish^a	Dynamics inherent to the market for academic labor power
Low statistical power	Small N research; for example, textual (close reading, archival work) or social (interviews, focus groups, participant observation)
Methods or code are unavailable	Difficulty in explaining the method—the thought—from which novel social insights derive
Raw data unavailable	Many forms of social data are protected and cannot be shared ethically

^a But see Fanelli, Costas, and Larivière (2015).

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