Practice question · True or false
Enough detail for an independent replication belongs in the Results section.
Hints
- Which section describes what was done?
- Results report what was found.
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False
Why
False. It belongs in Method: Results report what was found, Method reports what was done. The replication crisis exposed how often Method sections omitted the exclusions and analytic choices that decided the outcome, which is exactly what preregistration now pins down in advance.
Practise Reporting Research Findings
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More questions on Reporting Research Findings
- Sort each practice by whether it tends to worsen or to counter publication-related bias.
- A finding is peer-reviewed and published in a good journal. What has that process actually established?
- Select every statement that is TRUE about reporting research.
- A researcher collects data, notices an unexpected pattern, and publishes it as the hypothesis the study set…
- Well-conducted studies finding nothing are much less likely to be published than studies finding an effect.…
- Order the standard APA report sections as they appear in a paper.