Commentary on “Absolute memory for pitch: A comparative replication of Levitin’s 1994 study in six European labs”

Ask the average person to describe how science works and it becomes clear that they subscribe to two pervasive myths. The first is that science is neat and tidy, that scientists never disagreeabout anything. The second is that a single experiment tells us all we need to know about a phenomenon, that science moves forward in leaps and bounds after every experiment is published. It is important to dispel these myths by doing just what Frieler et al. (2013) have done here – to take findings from the literature, attempt to replicate them, and engage in an open dialog about the nature of experimental findings [...