Questionable Research Practices or Questionable Reporting Practices (QRPs)
Definition: A range of activities that intentionally or unintentionally distort data in favour of a researcher’s own hypotheses - or omissions in reporting such practices - including; selective inclusion of data, hypothesising after the results are known (HARKing), and p -hacking. Popularized by John et al. (2012).
Related terms: C reative use of outliers, Fabrication, File-drawer, Garden of forking paths, HARKing, Nonpublication of data, P -hacking, P -value fishing, Partial publication of data, Post-hoc storytelling, Preregistration, Questionable Measurement Practices (QMP), Researcher degrees of freedom, Reverse p -hacking, Salami slicing
Reference: Banks et al. (2016); Fiedler and Schwartz (2016); Hardwicke et al. (2014); John et al. (2012); Neuroskeptic (2012); Sijtsma (2016); Simonsohn et al. (2011)
Drafted and Reviewed by: Mahmoud Elsherif, Tamara Kalandadze, William Ngiam, Sam Parsons, Mariella Paul, Eike Mark Rinke, Timo Roettger, F lávio Azevedo