Experimental psychology research before the mid-2010s was a mess. The field was littered with papers with weak to non-existent theoretical foundations. Experimental data was unavailable. (The statement “data is available on request” is somewhat of a joke.) The experiments involved small samples and barely significant p-values. File drawers were overflowing with the carcasses of experiments that didn’t quite get the result hoped for. The forking paths in the data analysis allowed multipl...
