2025-06-27 –, Second floor 217 - WS
In this unconference, we want to explore the potential of the many-analysts approach in the context of exploratory research. To date, the many-analysts approach—where multiple research teams address the same research question using the same dataset—has been primarily applied to confirmatory research. In that domain, it has demonstrated a surprising diversity in how researchers preprocess data, operationalize key constructs, and select statistical models to test hypotheses of interest. However, its potential for exploratory research has received relatively little attention.
We believe that many-analysts approaches could provide valuable insights into intriguing patterns in the data and enable a systematic exploration of the variable space. These insights, in turn, can inform auxiliary assumptions, inform theory development, and guide the design of subsequent confirmatory studies.
