I had a look at the current entries, and it’s a bit unclear to me. For the facebook welcome, I don’t understand the methodology. Are you comparing different standard greetings against each other? If so, how do you decide which greeting gets used for which person?
In general the idea with pre-registration should be to state up-front exactly what questions you are trying to answer. This is a non-negligible amount of work involved in doing this properly; this is the cost of pre-registration (and why it isn’t a total no-brainer, particularly early on in a field when exploration and hypothesis generation is more important than hypothesis testing). Of course bringing down the cost helps make it worthwhile earlier.
I had a look at the current entries, and it’s a bit unclear to me. For the facebook welcome, I don’t understand the methodology. Are you comparing different standard greetings against each other? If so, how do you decide which greeting gets used for which person?
In general the idea with pre-registration should be to state up-front exactly what questions you are trying to answer. This is a non-negligible amount of work involved in doing this properly; this is the cost of pre-registration (and why it isn’t a total no-brainer, particularly early on in a field when exploration and hypothesis generation is more important than hypothesis testing). Of course bringing down the cost helps make it worthwhile earlier.