Colleague: Forget preregistration, just do multiverse analysis. Why preregister one arbitrary route through the garden of forking paths when you could report them all? Me: Sure. But multiverse analyses never report ALL paths or even should. Not all routes are equally valid. /1
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C: So just report the valid paths. Me: After looking at the data? That's bias prone. Unless you are necessarily examining ALL paths, you should preregister the valid ones & the interpretation. C: No, just report the 2nd order multiverse of multiverses. Me: [head implodes] /2
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Next week: New phys paper on arxiv concludes that infinitely recursive multiverse analyses threaten the quantum fabric of the material universe. All science to be halted until further notice.
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The media will pick this up and twist it... I can see the headlines writing themselves:
"Prof wants science to stop until HE understands everything: Have universities lost touch even with themselves?"

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