Preregistration entails researchers registering their planned research hypotheses, methods, and analyses in a time-stamped document before they undertake their data collection and analyses. This document is then made available with the published research report in order to allow readers to identify discrepancies between what the researchers originally planned to do and what they actually ended up doing.

In this new paper (Rubin, 2021), I consider when researchers should adjust their alpha level (significance threshold) during multiple testing and multiple comparisons. I consider three types of multiple testing (disjunction, conjunction, and individual), and I argue that an alpha adjustment is only required for one of these three types.

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We discuss scientists’ tendency to turn hypotheses into innately true ‘essences’ passed down by tradition.

I crunch the numbers on COVID vaccines. No surprises … they’re going overwhelmingly to rich countries.

It has been an … interesting month. But I did manage to finish a small project.

A rapid-fire post about Nitzan and Bichler’s buy-to-build indicator.

Let’s move all textbooks to the Creative Commons.

Economics from the Top Down is now officially in the Creative Commons.

We now seek applicants for a new three-year research fellowship to be held from March 2021, for which the application closing deadline is 7 February 2021. Plan: to strengthen the current technical and computational infrastructure.