Project SherlockEst. Knowledge

Essay

2013

Registered Reports: A New Publishing Initiative at Cortex

Christopher D. Chambers

Announces a journal format in which the introduction and methods are peer reviewed and provisionally accepted before the results are known, arguing this removes the incentive to change a study's story to fit whatever result comes out.

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An Agenda for Purely Confirmatory ResearchEric-Jan Wagenmakers, Ruud Wetzels, Denny Borsboom, Han L. J. van der Maas & Rogier A. Kievit, 2012Argues psychology has collapsed the distinction between generating a hypothesis from data and confirming it with new data, and that separating the two by preregistering every confirmatory analysis before collecting data is the fix.

Filed under Research Methods & the Replication Crisis in Psychology.