Interesting development, Chris. As someone who has been interested in the area of research integrity, I appreciate and support efforts to improve the quality of the scientific corpus.
This post made me reflect on the differences between how science is done today relative to how it was done when I was a student back in the 70s-80s. I recall with a certain degree of fondness (or, depending on the activity, horror) how some experiments would go from idea to publication: For example, you might sit in a research group throwing ideas around and if an idea was interesting/promising, you immediately grabbed a few rats (or students), brought them to the lab and tested them. You'd then tweak the conditions until you had a robust effect and ran additional subjects until you had a decent N (or until a statistical effect was obtained!!). You would then analyze your data, write them up, and present or publish them; these latter steps being the least exciting in the process. No pre-trial registration, no IRB application (or maybe just a half a page form, or previous blanket pre-approval for all experiments with a single methodology), no power analysis, some p-hacking, or as the saying goes, torturing those data until they confess! Seriously, I do wonder sometimes whether some of these efforts to improve the way science is done are also taking away the fun of doing science. Miguel ________________________________________ From: Christopher Green [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 6:39 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Royal Society Open Science launches Registered Reports | How do you stop the "file drawer problem"? Have journals decide whether to accept a paper BEFOREHAND the data is collected. Royal Society Open Science launches Registered Reports | Publishing blog | Royal Society<https://blogs.royalsociety.org/publishing/registered-reports/> It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 43.773759, -79.503722 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.yorku.ca/christo --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c12d&n=T&l=tips&o=47456 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-47456-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-47456-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=47457 or send a blank email to leave-47457-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
