TY - JOUR
T1 - How to crack pre-registration
T2 - Toward transparent and open science
AU - Yamada, Yuki
N1 - Funding Information:
The author would like to express great appreciation to the editor and the reviewer for their insightful and constructive comments. The author would also like to thank Davood Gozli and Siqi Zhu for their extremely valuable suggestions on an earlier draft of this article. The present study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP15H05709, JP16H03079, JP16H01866, JP17H00875, JP18H04199, and JP18K12015.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Yamada.
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Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/9/26
Y1 - 2018/9/26
N2 - The reproducibility problem that exists in various academic fields has been discussed in recent years, and it has been revealed that scientists discreetly engage in several questionable research practices (QRPs). For example, the practice of hypothesizing after the results are known (HARKing) involves the reconstruction of hypotheses and stories after results have been obtained (Kerr, 1998) and thereby promotes the retrospective fabrication of favorable hypotheses (cf. Bem, 2004). P-hacking encompasses various untruthful manipulations for obtaining p-values less than 0.05 (Simmons et al., 2011). Such unethical practices dramatically increase the number of false positive findings and thereby encourage the intentional fabrication of evidence as the basis of scientific knowledge and theory, which leads to individual profits for researchers.
AB - The reproducibility problem that exists in various academic fields has been discussed in recent years, and it has been revealed that scientists discreetly engage in several questionable research practices (QRPs). For example, the practice of hypothesizing after the results are known (HARKing) involves the reconstruction of hypotheses and stories after results have been obtained (Kerr, 1998) and thereby promotes the retrospective fabrication of favorable hypotheses (cf. Bem, 2004). P-hacking encompasses various untruthful manipulations for obtaining p-values less than 0.05 (Simmons et al., 2011). Such unethical practices dramatically increase the number of false positive findings and thereby encourage the intentional fabrication of evidence as the basis of scientific knowledge and theory, which leads to individual profits for researchers.
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U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01831
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01831
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85053875155
VL - 9
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
SN - 1664-1078
IS - SEP
M1 - 1831
ER -