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Is it though? Why declare publicly at all then? You’d just be giving the impression that when you do collect the data you’d be cherry picking, exactly like what
by karlshea 7y ago
Is it though? Why declare publicly at all then? You’d just be giving the impression that when you do collect the data you’d be cherry picking, exactly like what’s happening here.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> Is it though? Yes. It’s widely accepted as best practice by mainstream scientists. > Why declare publicly at all then? So people know what you were testing and so you can’t fudge it to a test more convenient for your career, politics, or bank balance.
- wahern 7y ago> It’s widely accepted as best practice by mainstream scientists. Simply declaring your hypothesis is not best practice. Publishing the details of your experiment--the protocols, analytical methods, etc--are what's best practice, AFAIU. Few scientists run an experiment they expect to fail, and without publishing the details ahead of time it's trivial to fudge an outcome, so simply pronouncing your hypothesis is entirely uninteresting.
- parineum 7y agoThis is one of the sources of the replication crisis. People would do experiments to test a hypothesis but find nothing conclusive, they would then p-hack their data until they found something worth publishing back-hypothesize. The solution is to publish hypothesis and test methodology ahead of time and publish your data afterward.
- chrisseaton 7y agoYes it doesn't work unless you include your methodology in what you declare upfront.
- MengerSponge 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
- chrisseaton 7y agoYes... that link supports what I’m saying. > The process of the scientific method involves making conjectures (hypotheses), deriving predictions from them as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions.
- buboard 7y agothe reverse order would be bad science
- chrisseaton 7y agoI don’t know what to tell you except that what you’re saying isn’t what most reputable scientists think.
- buboard 7y agodeciding your hypothesis after collecting data ? edit: i think we agree, misunderstanding