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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by LeonB on Saturday May 22, 2021 @05:43AM (#27245019)
Registering the methods/details before performing the experiments is another technique that is used.
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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by dagw on Saturday May 22, 2021 @09:21AM (#27246247)
Sure, but often there are perfectly valid reasons to change your methodology half way through a project when you know a lot more about the thing you are trying to do than you did before you started.
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