The Importance of Pre-Registration for Your Study

So many people get taken in for it because they don't ask the basic questions, how many comparisons did they make? Did they do internal replications? What do other studies show? Was there any unpublished data? Why isn't there like a big poster on the wall of these places saying, did you check these things? ABC and D. Right, there should be. The NIH put, set aside some money to create a, essentially a course that teaches researchers how not to P-hack. And I suspect and hope that once this is complete, that it will become a mandatory certification in order to get NIH funding. We need to start extending that. If you're registering your study.