S4E11: Revisiting Preregistration and Registered Reports

<p> </p> <p>In this episode, Jess and Sara reckon with what the preregistration revolution means in developmental science. We first visited preregistration and registered reports in Season 3. Since then, we’ve been a part of many preregistrations and registered reports, and have reviewed and handled them as editors. Through that process, we’ve noticed that questions often come up about whether something is <em>really</em> a preregistration and whether some studies or analyses can or should be preregistered. </p> <p>We mention: </p> <p>Several definitions: <a href="https://help.osf.io/article/145-preregistration">Open Science Framework</a>:  “Preregistration is the practice of <strong>documenting your research plan</strong> at the beginning of your study and storing that plan in a <strong>read-only public repository</strong>”. <a href="https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/resources/preregistration">APA:</a> “Preregistration allows researchers to specify and share the details of their research in a public registry before conducting the study.” <a href="https://ies.ed.gov/seer/preregistration.asp">IES </a>- no definition, just that you should do it; it’s part of the SEER standards.  <a href="https://sreereg.icpsr.umich.edu/sreereg/">REES </a>similarly just says “REES is designed to increase transparency of and access to information about both ongoing and completed efficacy and effectiveness studies.” Even the<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1708274114"> preregistration revolution</a> article doesn’t include a definition. The closest it gets (about ⅓ of the way through the article is “Preregistration of an analysis plan is committing to analytic steps without advance knowledge of the research outcomes.” </p> <p>Paper about preregistering exploratory analyses: Compares it to a funded sea voyage:  <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7098547/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7098547/</a> </p> <p><br> Connect with the podcast on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/within_between