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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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Abstract

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: 15 Sep 2023 19:01
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/72368

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