Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each practice by whether it tends to worsen or to counter publication-related bias.
Groups: Worsens / reflects the bias · Counters the bias
- Preregistering hypotheses and analysis plans before data collection
- Open-data sharing so others can scrutinize the analysis
- Journals favoring significant results over null results
- Publishing well-designed null results too
- Null-result studies staying in the file drawer
Hints
- Anything that hides null results or rewards only positives worsens the bias.
- Preregistration, open data, and publishing nulls all push against it.
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Worsens / reflects the bias: Journals favoring significant results over null results, Null-result studies staying in the file drawer
Counters the bias: Preregistering hypotheses and analysis plans before data collection, Open-data sharing so others can scrutinize the analysis, Publishing well-designed null results too
Why
Favoring positives and shelving null results worsen publication bias; preregistration, open data, and publishing null results counter it. The reforms all work by making the full body of evidence visible, not just the significant slice.
Practise Reporting Research Findings
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More questions on Reporting Research Findings
- Enough detail for an independent replication belongs in the Results section.
- 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.