Chapter 14: Power & Preregistration
[14a] Power Analysis
Topics
- Power analysis and its relationship to effect size, n, and alpha
- Types of power analysis
- Power for t-tests, one-way ANOVA, and the linear model
Readings
- WebPower Manual — WebPower
Slides
Assignment
[14b] Questionable Practices
Topics
- Bad Practices
- Best Practices
Readings
- Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2011), False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant — Psychological Science
- Bishop (2020), The Psychology of Experimental Psychologists: Overcoming Cognitive Constraints to Improve Research — QJEP
- Nosek & Bar-Anan (2012), Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication — Psychological Inquiry
- Nosek, Spies, & Motyl (2012), Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability — Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Nosek et al. (2018), The Preregistration Revolution — PNAS
Slides
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