Data Colada
Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Feedback Policy
  • Table of Contents
  • Seminar
  • Past Seminars
Menu

Category: Preregistration

[64] How To Properly Preregister A Study

Posted on November 6, 2017February 12, 2020 by Joe Leif Uri

P-hacking, the selective reporting of statistically significant analyses, continues to threaten the integrity of our discipline. P-hacking is inevitable whenever (1) a researcher hopes to find evidence for a particular result, (2) there is ambiguity about how exactly to analyze the data, and (3) the researcher does not perfectly plan out his/her analysis in advance….

Read more

[55] The file-drawer problem is unfixable, and that’s OK

Posted on December 17, 2016February 12, 2020 by Uri Simonsohn

The “file-drawer problem” consists of researchers not publishing their p>.05 studies (Rosenthal 1979 .htm). P-hacking consist of researchers not reporting their p>.05 analyses for a given study. P-hacking is easy to stop. File-drawering nearly impossible. Fortunately, while p-hacking is a real problem, file-drawering is not. Consequences of p-hacking vs file-drawering With p-hacking it’s easy to…

Read more

[44] AsPredicted: Pre-registration Made Easy

Posted on December 1, 2015February 11, 2020 by Uri Joe Leif

Pre-registering a study consists of leaving a written record of how it will be conducted and analyzed. Very few researchers currently pre-register their studies. Maybe it’s because pre-registering is annoying. Maybe it's because researchers don't want to tie their own hands. Or maybe it's because researchers see no benefit to pre-registering.  This post addresses these…

Read more

[12] Preregistration: Not just for the Empiro-zealots

Posted on January 7, 2014January 23, 2019 by Leif Nelson

I recently joined a large group of academics in co-authoring a paper looking at how political science, economics, and psychology are working to increase transparency in scientific publications. Psychology is leading, by the way. Working on that paper (and the figure below) actually changed my mind about something. A couple of years ago, when Joe,…

Read more

Get Colada email alerts.

Join 3,302 other subscribers

tweeter & facebook

We tweet new posts: @DataColada
And link to them on our Facebook page

Search posts

Get blogpost email alerts

Join 3,302 other subscribers

tweeter & facebook

We tweet new posts: @DataColada
And link to them on our Facebook page

Posts on similar topics

Preregistration
  • [64] How To Properly Preregister A Study
  • [55] The file-drawer problem is unfixable, and that’s OK
  • [44] AsPredicted: Pre-registration Made Easy
  • [12] Preregistration: Not just for the Empiro-zealots

search

Data Colada - All Content Licensed: CC-BY [Creative Commons]