Wagenmakers et al

Question 1

What year was this paper published?

Answer 1

2015

Question 2

What type of a study was it?

Answer 2

A pre-registered adversarial study

Question 3

What makes this type of study different to your average psych paper?

Answer 3

its a group of skeptics (Wagenmakers) and proponents (Matzke) who agree to perform an experiment together, they also have an impartial partner to help resolve disputes and ensure that all the research is conducted correctly, they all also agreed to publish the paper no matter the results

Question 4

What are some of the positives about this type of study

Answer 4

prevents publication bias as even a non-significant result will get published, prevents p-hacking as there is an impartial advisor and the skeptics would notice as everyone has access to all the data - its a transparent study

Question 5

What were the three groups in the experiments?

Answer 5

No eye movements, Vertical eye movements and Horizontal eye movements

Question 6

Which group performed the worst in the word recall task?

Answer 6

horizontal eye movements

Question 7

Which group performed best in the word recall task?

Answer 7

no eye movements

Question 8

What did skeptics argue led to previous significant results?

Answer 8

They argued that bias and questionable research practises have led to so many significant findings

Question 9

What did proponents argue led to this non-significant result?

Answer 9

experimenter bias, and that a double blind study must be conducted to ensure the skeptics weren’t influencing the participants, whether consciously or not