This is off topic and only tangentially related to statistics or R (through "HARK"ing -- Hypothesizing After Results are Known). But given the research interests of many on this list, I thought others would enjoy it. My apologies if I have overstepped (please let me know if so). Also, PLEASE DON'T RESPOND ON THIS LIST (privately is fine). This is just FYI.
I don't know whether the (short) article is pay walled, but here's the main message: "A high-profile paper about ways to improve the rigor of research papers has been retracted after critics attacked its own rigor. The study, published on 9 November 2023 in Nature Human Behaviour, purported to show the benefits of rigor-boosting measures including so-called preregistration—announcing the goals, methods, and other planned features of a study ahead of time—large sample sizes, and methodological transparency. It reported that these measures boosted the “replicability” of 16 findings in social-behavioral science to 86%, far more than the 30% to 70% reported in some analyses. “Editors no longer have confidence in the reliability of the findings and conclusions reported in this article,” the journal said in a retraction note published yesterday. “The concerns relate to lack of transparency and misstatement of the hypotheses and predictions the reported metastudy was designed to test; lack of preregistration for measures and analyses supporting the titular claim (against statements asserting preregistration in the published article); selection of outcome measures and analyses with knowledge of the data; and incomplete reporting of data and analyses,” the note says." Full article here: https://www.science.org/content/article/we-are-embarrassed-scientific-rigor-proponents-retract-paper-benefits-scientific-rigor Cheers to all, Bert ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
