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Did you notice if they pre-registered the separate analyses of males and females? Flexibility in the analysis of data ("researcher degrees of freedom") is likel
by bigfudge 5y ago
Did you notice if they pre-registered the separate analyses of males and females? Flexibility in the analysis of data ("researcher degrees of freedom") is likely one of the major causes of the replication crisis. Gelman's paper is excellent in showing how these issues manifest without any intended malfeasance:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_hacking.pdf http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...