Forget pre-registered reports, I want pre-registered Tweets
Tongue-in-cheek rule: you can only see the result of a study when you've first approved or disapproved the methodology. The result is then approvingly tweeted by you, no matter what the result was.
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Increasingly irritated by the pattern: data + shoddy analysis => conclusion X => viral spread by people who like conclusion X, and who don't care whether the study was sound or not.
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This is (a) impossible to avoid by individual action, since it's a collective effect, controlling what we see; and (b) it actually generates _demand_ for (and a livelihood for) people doing the shoddy studies.
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It's also impossible to avoid on the authorial side. You can be as careful as you like with the study and caveats, and yet it's likely to end up being shared a lot by people who like your conclusions, independent of those caveats.
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