“Striving for transparent and credible research: practical guidelines for behavioral ecologists”

author: Isabel Winney date: 15th December 2016 autosize: true

A ‘crisis’ in research

• Lack of transparency
• Papers that are wrong
• Lack of trust, sometimes anger, from general public and governments

Reliable, reproducible, replicable

• Reliable = being objective enough to produce consistent results
• Reproducible = having good documentation so that results can be reproduced
• Replicable = the result can be replicated closely, then conceptually

Reliable, reproducible, replicable

incremental: true

• Plan
  • Preregister
• Document
  • RStudio (projects)
  • Git(hub)
  • Jupyter
  • etc etc etc
• Disclose
  • Full methods
  • Distinguish confirmatory from exploratory analysis

through the Open Science Framework

A better process