Preregistration is writing down your idea for how you plan to collect and analyze your data _before_ you actually start collecting or analyzing it. In this episode, Jess and Sara talk about the many benefits of preregistration, the differences between preregistration and registered reports, describe their experiences with it, discuss some resources, and (hopefully) put to rest some fears about the practice that you might have.

Some resources we mention in this episode:

Sara’s blog post on preregistration: https://www.womeninedresearch.com/news/preregistrations

Paper Sara was thinking of when she talked about the distribution of p-values between preregistered and not preregistered work (it’s really the distribution of effect sizes): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470248/

Garden of forking paths: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_hacking.pdf

Preregistration templates at OSF: https://osf.io/zab38/wiki/home/

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