Breaking free
creativity
experimental
pre-analysis plan
pre-registration
research methods
Journal
Politics and the life sciences : the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
ISSN: 1471-5457
Titre abrégé: Politics Life Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8800535
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2023
03 2023
Historique:
entrez:
6
3
2023
pubmed:
7
3
2023
medline:
9
3
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Pre-registration has become an increasingly popular proposal to address concerns regarding questionable research practices. Yet preregistration does not necessarily solve these problems. It also causes additional problems, including raising costs for more junior and less resourced scholars. In addition, pre-registration restricts creativity and diminishes the broader scientific enterprise. In this way, pre-registration neither solves the problems it is intended to address, nor does it come without costs. Pre-registration is neither necessary nor sufficient for producing novel or ethical work. In short, pre-registration represents a form of virtue signaling that is more performative than actual.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
55-59Références
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