This post is a synopsis of the Bayesian work featured in Landy et al. (in press). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin. Preprint available at https://osf.io/fgepx/; the 325-page supplement is available at https://osf.io/jm9zh/; the Bayesian analyses can be found on pp. 238-295. Abstract “To what extent are research results influenced by subjective decisions…

This post is an extended synopsis of Stefan, A. M., Evans, N. J., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2019). Practical challenges and methodological flexibility in prior elicitation. Manuscript submitted for publication. Preprint available on PsyArXiv: https://psyarxiv.com/d42xb/       Abstract It is a well-known fact that Bayesian analyses require the specification of a prior distribution, and that different priors can lead to…

In this sentence-by-sentence breakdown of the paper “Preregistration is Redundant, at Best”, I argue that preregistration is a pragmatic tool to combat biases that invalidate statistical inference. In a perfect world, strong theory sufficiently constrains the analysis process, and/or Bayesian robots can update beliefs based on fully reported data. In the real world, however, even astrophysicists require a firewall between…