#### Resources for meetings and conferences #### Are you presenting at a meeting and want to share information about the Preregistration Challenge? Please use and modify any of the following materials. - A [single page handout][1] on preregistration in general and the competition in particular. Great for emailing or handing out. - A [short presentation][2] with basic information about the competition (approximately 7-15 minutes) - A [long presentation][3] with more background information about the causes of irreproducible research and the solutions that COS provides, including the Preregistration Challenge problems that preregistration is able to address (30 - 45 minutes) - A [webinar][4] about preregistration on OSF. ---------- #### Public Examples of Preregistrations #### [OSF Registries][5] allows you to peruse publicly available registrations, including those that use the [Prereg Challenge template][6]. ---------- #### Resources for background reading #### Below is a series of articles and blog posts on preregistration and its utility. - [Seven Selfish Reasons for Preregistration][7] Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Gilles Dutilh - [Research Preregistration 101][8] D. Stephen Lindsay, Daniel J. Simons, Scott O. Lilienfeld - [A manifesto for reproducible science][9] M. Munafò, B. Nosek, D. Bishop, K. Button, C. Chambers, N. Percie du Sert, U. Simonsohn, EJ Wagenmakers, J. Ware & J. Ioannidis - [Trust in science would be improved by study pre-registration][10] by Chris Chambers, Marcus Munafo, and more than 80 other signatories in The Guardian - [Why we need pre-registration][11] by Dorothy Bishop on the Bishop Blog - [The Amazing Significo: why researchers need to understand poker][12] by Dorothy Bishop on the Bishop Blog - [There’s Madness in our Methods: Improving inference in ecology and evolution][13] by Jarrod Hadfield in the Methods Blog - [Let’s think about cognitive bias][14] Nature editorial board - [A menagerie of messed up data analyses and how to avoid them][15] by Jeff Leef in Simply Stats - [For Preregistration in Fundamental Research][16] by "Neuroskeptic" on the Discover Magazine blog - [Putting hypotheses to the test: We must hold ourselves accountable to decisions made before we see the data.][17] by David Mellor on the Impact Blog - [Pre-registration in the Political Science Replication Blog][18] by a variety of authors - [Data peeking is always wrong (except when you do it right)][19] by Sanjay Srivastava on The Hardest Science [1]: https://osf.io/peut2/ [2]: https://osf.io/7tq5p/ [3]: https://osf.io/u74qf/ [4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnKkGO3OM9c [5]: https://osf.io/registries/ [6]: https://osf.io/registries/discover?provider=OSF&type=Prereg%20Challenge [7]: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/seven-selfish-reasons-for-preregistration#.WEASRaIrJZ0 [8]: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/research-preregistration-101#.WEASSaIrJZ1 [9]: http://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-016-0021 [10]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/jun/05/trust-in-science-study-pre-registration [11]: http://deevybee.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/why-we-need-pre-registration.html [12]: http://deevybee.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-amazing-significo-why-researchers.html [13]: https://methodsblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/madness-in-our-methods/ [14]: http://www.nature.com/news/let-s-think-about-cognitive-bias-1.18520/ [15]: http://simplystatistics.org/2016/02/01/a-menagerie-of-messed-up-data-analyses-and-how-to-avoid-them/ [16]: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/04/25/for-preregistration-in-fundamental-research/#.VrunFZMrLFx [17]: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/02/03/on-generating-and-testing-hypotheses/ [18]: https://politicalsciencereplication.wordpress.com/category/pre-registration/ [19]: https://hardsci.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/data-peeking-is-always-wrong-except-when-you-do-it-right/