A replicated study on nuclear proliferation shows the critical necessity of reviewing accepted scientific results.

Bell, Mark and Miller, Nicholas R. (2013) A replicated study on nuclear proliferation shows the critical necessity of reviewing accepted scientific results. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (05 Nov 2013). Website.

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In replicating a 2009 study on the role of asymmetric nuclear weapons possession, Mark Bell and Nicholas Miller found that a computational error led to the overestimation of the deterrent effect of nuclear weapons by a factor of several million. It is only through constant re-evaluation of scholarly findings that scholars can reach sufficiently robust conclusions that merit the attention of policymakers.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information:	© 2013 The Author(s) CC BY 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2017 11:59
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 18:44
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/72368

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