The comments on this thread drive home why pre-analysis plans[0] are awesome. It's easy to say, after the fact: 'the grants weren't large enough, the relationsh

The comments on this thread drive home why pre-analysis plans[0] are awesome. It's easy to say, after the fact: 'the grants weren't large enough, the relationship between X and Y is conceptually non-linear, those aren't the right outcomes to look at,' etc. The point is whether folks would have offered these explanations in advance. [0] 'Promises and perils of pre-analysis plans', Ben Olken, https://economics.mit.edu/files/10654 https://economics.mit.edu/files/10654