Video can make science more open, transparent, robust, and reproducible

Amidst the recent flood of concerns about transparency and reproducibility in the behavioral and clinical sciences, we suggest a simple, inexpensive, easy-to-implement, and uniquely powerful tool to improve the reproducibility of scientific research and accelerate progress—video recordings of experimental procedures. Widespread use of video for documenting procedures could make moot disagreements about whether empirical replications truly reproduced the original experimental conditions. We call on researchers, funders, and journals to make commonplace the collection and open sharing of video-recorded procedures.

在行为科学和临床科学领域近期对透明度和可重复性问题的担忧日益增多之际，我们提出一种简单、经济、易于实施且独具功效的工具，旨在提升科学研究的可重复性并加速研究进展——即实验程序的录像记录。广泛采用录像来记录程序，或许可以使关于实证复现是否真正重现了原始实验条件的争论变得无关紧要。我们呼吁研究人员、资助机构和期刊普遍采用录像记录程序，并促进其收集和开放共享。