PNB 3RM3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Research Question, Data Analysis, Motivated Reasoning

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
• Course: PNB 3RM3
• Professor: Ali Hashemi

Document Summary

As researchers, have your own theory / understanding of how the world works. No matter how much you try to avoid it when analyzing data, have a tendency to interpret your results in your way of how you think the world works: minimal accountability (lerner & tetlock, 1999) No over watch making sure people are partaking in good analysis: incentive structure. Incentive: to get as many significant results out as fast as possible. To survive in field of science, have to keep publishing: will lower your standards in order to keep up with the need to publish to get the incentives that you want: i am busy" study pre-registration: One solution to these problems reduces how many bad decisions a researcher can make when looking at data involves specifying a priori your (before data collection): research question, hypotheses, study design, materials, data analysis plan. Looking t your target sample: size, population, sampling.