Psychology · Research Methods & the Replication Crisis
A topic within Research Methods & the Replication Crisis, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Ruud Wetzels, Denny Borsboom, Han L. J. van der Maas & Rogier A. Kievit
Argues 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.
Notes on this copyBrian A. Nosek, Charles R. Ebersole, Alexander C. DeHaven & David T. Mellor
Argues that registering hypotheses and analysis plans before seeing the data is the single change most able to separate confirmatory testing from exploratory data analysis, and that failing to distinguish the two is what let so many false positives into the published literature.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copy