ZENY: Bob’s cherry-picking is extremely problematic,

but so is Ann’s harking.

SOCART: But would you agree that granting her the
freedom to hark most likely reduces her tempta-
tion to cherry-pick?

ZENY: This would simply reclassify Ann’s work as
exploratory rather than conﬁrmatory. I see no
reason why preregistration should not allow this.
SOCART: The two researchers both departed from their
original plans, but Ann’s willingness to depart
from her original hypothesis serves us better than
Bob’s cherry-picking. In this way, harking can
prevent a researcher from taking on a ﬁshing ex-
pedition.

(cid:88) Preregistration should allow for re-classiﬁcation
of conﬁrmatory research as exploratory research.15

5 Solving Publication Bias?
A Two-Sided Discussion of Preregistration of NLP Research