This is very twisted rhetoric. Modelling doesn't work if we apply rules from empirical research.
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I'm sorry for being gone through this, but you did a better job of handling that than I would have. I've debated with Ben before and I absolutely get the sense that he would prefer to see all work as pre-registration even though I can't quote the tweet. And I predicted a muting.
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I think it's fair to say that when someone says e.g. "Pre-reg doesn't prevent exploration" they are essentially supporting universal pre-reg (otherwise why say it?). And yet there is no specific tweet one can point to.
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OK, I'll out myself. I've meant that when I've said that. I'm a grad student in social psych so I think pre reg is the bees knees. Can someone ELI5 why/when pre reg is not useful, when it does allow for exploratory research?
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I would recommend that you go thru
@djnavarro’s and@IrisVanRooij’s recent threads, and also browse thru@o_guest’s and@JCSkewesDK’s TL’s. Many answers to your q have already been provided. You won’t find answers wrt social psych but def on many types of exploratory research. -
Thanks, I've been following them all but still don't really get it, probably because I only have the fuzziest understanding of what modelling is. I'll keep trying

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That's understandable. Thanks for being so open and clear.
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Thanks! I've learnt so much from twitter that I just wouldn't be exposed to in my small university, I'm grateful to everyone that talks about these issues or I'd still be p hacking having no idea....
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In modelling we don't have p-values to hack. But we do replicate our work a lot for other reasons — implementation, model, specification, and theory evaluation — that are not discussed in the empirical discussions on replication.
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