HARKing: Hypothesizing After the Results are Known - The Broken Science Initiative By Norbert L. Kerr Summary This paper by psychologist Norbert Kerr discusses the emerging practice in science of asserting a hypothesis after an experiment has [...]

🧪 A literary description of #HARKing #ReplicationCrisis #ResearchWaste
Hypothesising after the results are known

Nice blog here with the original paper by psychologist Norbert Kerr brokenscience.org/harking-hypo...

Questionable research practices from the practitioners’ perspectives Discussions and narratives from four behavioral and social scientists about their experiences learning, observing, and doing things in the course of research, and communicating that research, that con...

crowdid.hypotheses.org/1666 #QRPs #questionableresearchpractices #p-hacking #HARKing #publish-or-perish #science #metascience 🧪

As mentioned in the abstract, this is a preregistered study: osf.io/9z5qn

#openscience #reproducibility #phacking #preregistration #harking #replicability

"okay, well you know, if I'm just going to construct my argument to match the findings, I might as well just go get the findings first"

- me, on the topic of #harking while collecting autoethnographic data for my study

Evidence of HARKing in mouse behavioural tests of anxiety | Royal Society Open Science Over the last decades, behavioural tests in animals, especially rodents, have been a standard screening method to determine the mechanisms of action and efficacy of psychopharmacological compounds. Ye...

We found evidence of high rates of #HARKing in preclinical behavioural tests #inmice - or do you have other explanations for these findings? #reproducibility #replication
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Zeichnung eines jungen Mannes, der erklärend einen Arm ausstreckt. Er wirft einen langen Schatten hinter sich, dessen Nase "Pinocchio-artig" verlängert ist. Rechts daneben Überschrift "Wirklich nur kleine Lügen?" des im Post verlinkten Artikels, gefolgt von dessen Vorspann.

Ersetzt man nach Erhalt frischer #Daten die ursprüngliche Ausgangs-#Hypothese durch eine "passendere", betreibt man sogenanntes #HARKing. Damit führt man die Kollegen an der Nase herum – und nicht selten auch sich selbst … — In unserer "Freitags-Kolumne": www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3...

The crisis of science from ChatGPT's perspective. #openscience #replication #metascience #academicpublishing #publishorperish #phacking #HARKing

A fringe benefit of #preregistering a study is that it let me push back against several reviewer requests for additional tests, or even a completely different study. I wonder if more bioinformatics/genomics folks will adopt the practise. #reproducibility #robustresearch #HARKing