OSC/e Lunch Meetup: Let’s discuss the benefits and drawbacks of preregistration

When: 25 October 2022, 12:00-13:00 (Lunch will be provided!)

Where: TBA (TU/e campus)

Registration: https://t.co/t213QKGyYB

Preregistration is the practice of documenting your research plan at the beginning of your study and storing that plan in a read-only public repository. An outline of a future project may increase the discoverability of the research and help to address the file drawer effect (Rosenthal, 1979; Franco, Malhotra, & Simonovits, 2014), yet insufficient to assist in evaluating claims resulting from that research. Including a detailed analysis plan in the preregistration may additionally help reduce unintentional false positive inflation of results (Forstmeier, Wagenmakers, & Parker, 2017) and better enable readers to distinguish exploratory from hypothesis-testing elements in a study (Nosek, Ebersole, DeHaven, & Mellor, 2018). But: are there drawbacks of preregistering your study? Let’s discuss it during this OSC/e meetup.

The discussion will be led by our new member and a strong supporter of Open Science Pavlo Bazilinskyy — an Assistant professor in the Future Everyday group (Industrial Design) and Daniel Lakens — an Associate Professor and experimental psychologist working at the Human-Technology Interaction group at TU/e.

Introducing Pavlo

Pavlo Bazilinskyy is an assistant professor at TU Eindhoven focusing on AI-driven interaction between automated vehicles and other road users. He finished his PhD at TU Delft in auditory feedback for automated driving as a Marie Curie Fellow, where he also worked as a postdoc. He was the head of data research at SD-Insights. Pavlo is a treasurer of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) and was a director of the Research and Innovation unit of the Erasmus Mundus Association (EMA).