2025-06-27 –, Second floor 217 - WS
While the social sciences have adopted preregistration as a preferred method to prevent bias, astrophysics and cosmology have embraced analysis blinding to safeguard confirmatory research since the early 2000s. In this workshop, I will discuss the strengths and challenges of analysis blinding, a technique where data is temporarily altered before analysis. I will briefly discuss empirical findings comparing analysis blinding to preregistration and highlight the types of projects where this approach is particularly valuable. As a practical exercise, participants will have the opportunity to apply analysis blinding to an empirical dataset.
