> preregister a hypothesis and experiment before collecting data This reminds me of an old website, I think it was called Half Baked, where people could (I thi

> preregister a hypothesis and experiment before collecting data This reminds me of an old website, I think it was called Half Baked, where people could (I think anonymously) post just any ridiculous idea for an invention. It was fun to read. Unfortunately I can't find a link. But man, when I think about it in terms of science and in the more modern context of preprints, it sounds like Flag Planting, Extreme Edition. Even the ML community, who encourage preprint publication more than any other field I know of, have had some pretty heated exchanges about the validity of using that medium for flag planting, and that is when the "flag planting" at least consists of a short paper properly describing an idea, with some rudimentary empirical result and analysis. So I dunno, it's an intriguing idea, but not without controversy I think.