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It is getting increasingly popular within the social sciences to preregister studies. That is, prior to collecting any data for a study, researchers register their theoretical predictions/expectations (i.e., hypothesis or hypotheses), the data collection procedure, the planned analysis, etc. I am generally in favour of preregistrations. All else equal, more information on how a study […]

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726. While most social progress has been made in a nonlinear fashion, people believe progress is made in a linear fashion (Hur and Ruttan 2023) 727. The flow of information provided by East German industrial espionage in the West led to a significant narrowing of sectoral gaps between West and East Germany (Glitz and Meyersson […]

Last year I wrote a post on the endless supply of contextual factors that (might) explain support for Brexit. In brief, I argued that a potential problem with the different studies examining the different factors is that they only contribute to the illusion of cumulative science. That is, just because a new study is able […]

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