What’s the difference between Derek Jeter and preregistration?
Boy do I not agree with the substance of this article.<p>I agree that yes, preregistration is not a panacea that will fix the reproducibility crisis or whatever.<p>But the problem that it is solving is not to improve the quality of studies that get published. It only does that implicitly. What it does is allows us to factor in the unpublished studies. It gives us access to previously unpublishable null results.<p>Would this have debunked the ESP research? No, that study would have gotten published because its results supported the expectations of the experimenters. BUT all the attempts to reproduce that would also have been pre-registered, and their lack of publishing (or the publishing of null results) would have effectively debunked the original.