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Stories by Mark Rubin on Medium

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In this new article, I consider questionable research practices in the field of metascience. A questionable metascience practice (QMP) is a research practice, assumption, or perspective that’s been questioned by several commentators as being potentially problematic for metascience and/or the science reform movement. I discuss 10 QMPs that relate to criticism, replication, bias, generalization, and the characterization of science.

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Author Mark Rubin

Researchers often distinguish between: (1) Exploratory hypothesis tests — unplanned tests of post hoc hypotheses that may be based on the current results, and (2) Confirmatory hypothesis tests — planned tests of a priori hypotheses that are independent from the current results This distinction is supposed to be useful because exploratory results are assumed to be more “tentative” and “open to bias” than confirmatory results.