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Preregistration Is Neither Sufficient nor Necessary for Good Science
Journal of Consumer Psychology ( IF 4.551 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 , DOI: 10.1002/jcpy.1209
Michel Tuan Pham 1 , Travis Tae Oh 2
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To address widespread perceptions of a reproducibility crisis in the social sciences, a growing number of scholars recommend the systematic preregistration of empirical studies. The purpose of this article is to contribute to an epistemological dialogue on the value of preregistration in consumer research by identifying the limitations, drawbacks, and potential adverse effects of a preregistration system. After a brief review of some of the implementation challenges that commonly arise with preregistration, we raise three levels of issues with a system of preregistration. First, we identify its limitations as a means of advancing consumer knowledge, thus questioning the sufficiency of preregistration in promoting good consumer science. Second, we elaborate on why consumer science can progress even in the absence of preregistration, thereby also questioning the necessity of preregistration in promoting good consumer science. Third, we discuss serious potential adverse effects of preregistration, both at the individual researcher level and at the level of the field as a whole. We conclude by offering a broader perspective on the narrower role that preregistration can play within the general pursuit of building robust and useful knowledge about consumers.

中文翻译:

预注册既不是充分的,也不是良好科学所必需的

为了解决社会科学界普遍存在的可再现性危机的认识,越来越多的学者建议对经验研究进行系统的预注册。本文的目的是通过识别预注册系统的局限性,缺陷和潜在的不利影响,为关于预注册在消费者研究中的价值的认识论对话做出贡献。在简要回顾了预注册通常会遇到的一些实施挑战之后,我们提出了预注册系统的三个层次的问题。首先,我们将其局限性视为提升消费者知识的一种方式,从而质疑了预先注册是否足以促进良好的消费者科学。其次,我们详细说明了为什么即使没有预先注册,消费者科学也可以进步,因此也质疑在促进良好的消费者科学方面进行预注册的必要性。第三,我们讨论了预注册在个人研究人员和整个领域中的严重潜在不利影响。最后,我们以广泛的视角对预注册在构建有关消费者的强大而有用的知识的一般追求中可以扮演的更窄的角色进行了研究。
更新日期:2020-12-04
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