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egouldo / EcoConsPreReg

Designing, Evaluating and Testing Preregistration Templates for Ecology and Conservation
https://egouldo.github.io/EcoConsPreReg/
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6.3 Include or not, or reword? #26

Closed egouldo closed 4 years ago

egouldo commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/egouldo/EcoConsPreReg/blob/b5d4ed469c4ceb09c2f57db28f570960785baea0/analysis/preregistration_template.Rmd#L304-L306

My reply to @hannahsfraser 's comment:

Yeah. I wasn't sure whether to include this, or just acknowledge this as being a part of the modelling workflow for people working in government institutions and agencies on decision-problems and then removing the item from the template.

I will leave this in for now, but set up an issue to invite @csjones8 to the conversation.

As an explanation for why I included this item, basically all people in the modelling group included a decision-point item about checking back with clients or others at the end.

You're right, it could put the researcher in a tricky position, however, I'm not sure. Perhaps when I send the survey out to workshop participants we will get a good sense of how people feel about this.

I do feel that it's important to be transparent about when evidence for a particular management intervention arising from a structured decision analysis will be actually based on that analysis, or whether that exercise will be ignored in favour of clients who might be locked onto a particular candidate decision, rather than some ecological outcome.

Ping @csjones8 to discuss further.

egouldo commented 4 years ago

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