Ecologists and evolutionary biologists can and should pre-register their research
[This post has been originally posted on ecoevotransparency.org]
I wrote a draft of this post a few weeks ago, and now seems like a good time for it to see the light of day given the great new pre-print just posted on OSF Preprints by Brian Nosek, David Mellor, and co-authors. They describe the utility of pre-registration across a variety of circumstances. I do something similar here, though I focus on ecology and evolutionary biology and I don’t try to be as thorough as Nosek et al. For greater depth of analysis, check out their paper. On to my post.