• DOI:10.1177/1745691612463078
Corpus ID: 5096417

An Agenda for Purely Confirmatory Research

@article{Wagenmakers2012AnAF,
  title={An Agenda for Purely Confirmatory Research},
  author={Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Ruud Wetzels and D. Borsboom and Han L. J. van der Maas and Rogier A Kievit},
  journal={Perspectives on Psychological Science},
  year={2012},
  volume={7},
  pages={632 - 638}
}

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Ruud Wetzels, +2 authors Rogier A Kievit

Published 2012

Psychology, Medicine

Perspectives on Psychological Science

The veracity of substantive research claims hinges on the way experimental data are collected and analyzed. In this article, we discuss an uncomfortable fact that threatens the core of psychology’s academic enterprise: almost without exception, psychologists do not commit themselves to a method of data analysis before they see the actual data. It then becomes tempting to fine tune the analysis to the data in order to obtain a desired result—a procedure that invalidates the interpretation of the… CONTINUE READING

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