Pre-registration
Everything we’ve discussed so far in the course should have prepared you for this week: Pre-registration. Pre-registration is the act of publishing an experimental design, data collection, and analysis plan, before conducting an experiment.
After reading week, you will turn in the Pre-registration assignment. This week we prepare you with everything you will need to complete that assignment! You still have a few weeks to refine your experimental design and interests. Be sure you are simultaneously researching your topic of interest and working on this pre-registration between now and the submission deadline.
Our goals are to:
understand what pre-registration is and when and why to do it
discuss what goes into a pre-registration
begin developing a pre-registration for your own experiment
Slides from this week are available here: [NOTE: Will be updated as course progresses]
Before next class
Please begin the pre-registration assignment (linked here).
NOTE: this assignment will require substantial effort - do not put it off until the last minute!
Read Experimentology Ch. 11 (it will help you with the assignment!)
Importantly, please continue refining your research topic.