oLT6: Radical Transparency: A leap forwad in open research practices
Current open, reliable, and transparent standards promote practices such as pre-registration and Registered Reports, or open data, code, and protocols.
These practices are crucial for ultimately achieving scientific transparency, but are they enough?
In this talk, we argue that:
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Questionable research practices will prevail no matter what, if only due to human error.
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Pre-registration and registered reports do not adapt to every possible research design.
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Studies will likely deviate from their intended plan (and we may never know when or why).
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How a research project evolves is also relevant scientific knowledge.
This talk advocates for making public the whole process of developing all research outcomes, in a "collaborative open-source-like" fashion.
This information may help oneself and others understand and diagnose the validity of scientific conclusions, prevent fraud and unintended bias, and improve iteratively.
We call this way of doing science "Radical Transparency".
