There is no golden path to discovery. One of my problems with all the focus on p-hacking, preregistration, harking, etc. is that I fear that it is giving the impression that all will be fine if researchers just avoid “questionable research practices.” And that ain’t the case.

Following our recent post on the latest Dishonestygate scandal, we got into a discussion of the challenges of simulating fake data and performing a pre-analysis before conducting an experiment. You can see it all in the comments to that post—but … Continue reading → …