preregistration would potentially save compute
resources, but not working hours.

ZENY: That is an oversimpliﬁcation. Giving feedback
on an early draft takes much less time than writing
a full paper. If the reviewers are carried over, they
will save time when reading the full submission,
also. Preregistration would also prevent cherry-
picking and invalid use of signiﬁcance tests by ex-
cluding explorations from conﬁrmatory research.
SOCART: But the explorations could be done prior to
preregistration and researchers may then be more
inclined not to report such explorations at all.4

ZENY: Any system can be tricked, but if researchers
adopted the practice of preregistration, we would,
all things being equal, increase transparency and
decrease bias around research.
A Two-Sided Discussion of Preregistration of NLP Research