Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/230272 
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2021
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[Journal:] Public Administration Review [ISSN:] 1540-6210 [Volume:] 81 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Wiley Subscription Services, Inc. [Place:] Hoboken, USA [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 191-204
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Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., Hoboken, USA
Abstract: 
Recent developments in the social sciences have demonstrated that we cannot uncritically aggregate the published research on a particular effect to conclude about its presence or absence. Instead, questionable research practices such as p-hacking (conducting additional analyses or collecting new data to obtain significant results) and selective publication of significant results can produce a body of published research that misleads readers even if it contains many significant results. It is, therefore, necessary to assess the evidential value of the research on a certain effect; that is, one must rule out that it is the result of questionable research practices. We introduce the p-curve method to public administration research and apply it to the research on the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and individual performance, to demonstrate how the evidential value of a body of published research can be assessed. We find that this particular literature contains evidential value.
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