Pre-registration and Replication Crisis Mitigation

Identify and catalogue researcher degrees of freedom specific to the analysis of the complex vee experiment.

Formulate a pre-registration plan specifying primary outcomes, analysis models, and rules for handling multiple comparisons to prevent p-hacking.

Design the analysis plan to explicitly avoid HARKing by distinguishing confirmatory from exploratory analyses.

Describe how to apply the Test for Excess Success as a self-diagnostic for evaluating pilot data from the vee experiment.

Propose stopping rules for data collection within each experimental period that are robust to optimal stopping bias.

Draft the complete pre-registration document for the proposed triadic experiment.