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I will use this banner for posts that seem relevant for our Synthese Topical Collection on Severity and learning from error (CFP here). Many of the issues in today’s meta-methodology interconnect with philosophy of statistics and epistemology, and I am keen to highlight posts that touch on this. Consider preregistration. It’s a welcome consequence of today’s statistical crisis of replication that some social sciences are taking a page from medical trials and calling for preregistration of sampling protocols and full reporting. In 2018, Brian Nosek and others wrote of the “Preregistration Revolution”, as part of open science initiatives. The topic was the focus of a 2024 conference in London, which I was unable to attend, but for which I wrote these two posts here and here. Continue reading →