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Preregistration of the Hypotheses for the SSC Survey

2017/12/26
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[This post is about the 2018 SSC Survey. If you’ve read at least one blog post here before, please take the survey) if you haven’t already. Please don’t read on until you’ve taken it, since this could bias your results.]

I’m preregistering my hypotheses for the survey this year. So far I’ve glanced at Google’s bar graphs for each individual question but haven’t started exploring relationships yet, so I’m not cheating too badly. I’ll still look for things I haven’t preregistered, but I’ll admit they’re preliminary results only. This is the stuff I’ve been thinking about beforehand and will be taking more seriously: