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domingo, 4 de marzo de 2018

Pre-registration and Open Science

In social sciences, especially psychology, the open science paradigm is drawing growing attention. Recently, the American Psychologist published a special issue on open science and data sharing.
Claims for the need of open science come from the replication crisis, which refers to a methodological crisis in science in which scientists have found that the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate/reproduce on subsequent investigation, either by independent researchers or by the original researchers themselves. The effect of replication crisis is especially salient in research fields in which scientific evidence is gathered through hypothesis testing, such as psychology. Recently, the American Psychologist published a special issue on open science and data sharing. Those interested in that issue may follow the Improving your statistical inferences course by Daniel Läkens.

Tackling reproducibility crisis requires enhancing accumulation of evidence through data sharing, and ensuring avoiding some traps of hypothesis testing through pre-registration of studies. A good introduction about how registered reports work can be found here: https://cos.io/rr/.

The adoption of pre-registered reports by the scientific community may lead to substantial changes in scientific publishing.


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