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More Pre-Registration, More Null Results
[From the article, “First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings” by Matthew Warren, published at Nature.com] “Studies that fail to find a positive result are often filed away, never to see the light of day, which…
Read MoreGetting Pre-Registration Right Is Not So Easy
[From the paper, “Ensuring the quality and specificity of preregistrations” by C.L.S. Veldkamp et al., posted at PsyArXiv Preprints] “…we evaluated two preregistration formats that are available on the OSF: a lightweight format that maximizes flexibility for the researcher to…
Read MorePre-registration. From clinical trials. To psychology. Next, the world?
[From the article “More and more scientists are preregistering their studies. Should you?” by Kai Kupferschmidt, published in Science] “…Preregistration, in its simplest form, is a one-page document answering basic questions such as: What question will be studied? What is the hypothesis?…
Read MoreDon’t Think of Them as Students. Think of Them As Potential Pre-Registration Replicators.
[From the Research page of Gilad Feldman’s website.] “In 2016, following recent developments in psychological science (the so called “replication crisis”) and gaining my academic independence, I decided to make serious changes to my research agenda to prioritize pre-registered replications…
Read MoreReproducibility. You Can Do This.
[From the paper, “Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability” by Michele Nuijten, forthcoming in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology] “Several large-scale problems are affecting the validity and reproducibility of scientific research. … Many of the suggested solutions are…
Read MorePre-Registration? Meet Publication Bias
[From the blog post, “What Is Preregistration For?” by Neuroskeptic, published at Discover Magazine] “The paper reports on five studies which all address the same general question. Of these, Study #3 was preregistered and the authors write that it was performed after…
Read MorePostdiction, Prediction, and Preregistration
[From the article, “The preregistration revolution” by Brian Nosek, Charles Ebersole, Alexander DeHaven, and David Mellor, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)] “Sometimes researchers use existing observations of nature to generate ideas about how the world…
Read MoreRCTs To Fix Science?
[From a letter published in the September 22 issue of Science entitled “Addressing scientific integrity scientifically”] “To introduce greater rigor into the study of research integrity and the factors that foster or discourage responsible behavior, the participants at the Fifth…
Read MorePre-register. Make a $1000. Really?
[From the Center for Open Science webpage.] “If you have a project that is entering the planning or data collection phase, we’d like you to try out a preregistration. Through our $1 Million Preregistration Challenge, we’re giving away $1,000 to 1,000…
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