2023 Essay Title 1: Replicability

TOK Talk · Replicability: 2023 TOK Essay Title 1

In this episode, I sat down with Donna Gee (IB Design Technology Teacher) and Michael Stewart (IB Psychology and TOK Teacher) to unpack and wrestle with 2023 TOK Essay Title 1: Is replicability necessary in the production of knowledge? Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge.

​We had a rich discussion which I hope you’ll find insightful into the role and relevance of replicability in different Areas of Knowledge. 

Links:

• Science has been in a “replication crisis” for a decade. Have we learned anything? - Vox
• Why Most Published Research Findings Are False | PLOS Medicine
• There is no replication crisis in science. It's the base rate fallacy. - Big Think        
• Statistical P-hacking explained - World Editors Forum 
• Publication bias - Catalog of Bias (University of Oxford)
• Accidental discovery of teflon - The History of Teflon™ Fluoropolymers
• Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian,' Explained: Here's Everything We Published on the Viral Banana Art, All in One Place