What Is Preregistration For?

A paper in Psychological Science was taking a beating on Twitter last month.https://twitter.com/lakens/status/1004119102485614592In this post, I'm not going to talk about the paper itself but rather, about how it came to be published and how preregistration - a concept I have long advocated - may be being misused.The paper reports on five studies which all address the same general question. Of these, Study #3 was preregistered and the authors write that it was performed after