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I’m for pre registration for some fields with big large experiments.For other fields (robotics is what I have in mind),I think the experiments can be so rapid t

• alextheparrot 6y ago
  This seems to be a separable point, though. The issue here is not the act of pre-registration, but the friction it imposes. I know most of the experiments and research I have done could have been summarized at the time in 10 minutes - to the effect of "I will manipulate variable X over time ranges Y, this is supported by <source or professional explanation> and I expect Z", or even "We performed a gradient over variables X and Y expecting to modulate Z and looked for phenotypes not previously described for further characterization". My experience in research is that there is very little pre-commitment on this level of granularity. Grant applications should be at the level of "We hope to study X because it is known to be correlated with Y and are hoping to elucidate a mechanistic relationship between these two". The experiments which go into proving such should more closely resemble mathematical proofs, is a viewpoint I currently hold.
• someguydave 6y ago
  why can’t you gpg-sign a text file and then get a bitcoin timestamp receipt? There is no need for bureaucracy.