This is just a quick post of appreciation for PCI Registered Reports. I’ve recently joined the PCI RR community as a ‘recommender‘. One thing that spurred me to join is a rather unsatisfactory experience I had as a peer-reviewer, reviewing a manuscript where the experimental design was deeply insufficient.

I contrast Popper's (1983, 2002) theory testing approach with that of Lakatos (1978) and a related approach called naïve methodological falsificationism. I conclude that the replication crisis is least problematic in the Lakatosian approach.