#open-science

#open-science

I vividly remember the first experiment I conducted for my PhD in economics, investigating the conditions under which trust forms between strangers. I had built a solid theoretical framework, designed the experiment - in which students played a trust game - carefully, and optimistically named my database 'AwesomeData'. But when I ran my first sessions, the results made no sense. My participants weren't behaving as theory - or even common sense - would suggest, because my set-up made the task too confusing.

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