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> It’s widely accepted as best practice by mainstream scientists. Simply declaring your hypothesis is not best practice. Publishing the details of your experim
by 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.