Valuing replication value
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This is a commentary piece on the proposal by Isager et al. (2025) for a new metric, RVCn, designed to evaluate the replication value of psychological studies. We discuss the hope of utilizing the RVCn metric in undergraduate education and possible improvements on using some elements other than original sample size to derive this metric.
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