Ch #1: Peer Review #536
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Hi DIME team,
I'm very glad to provide a review of this document. Overall, it's very exciting to see the breadth of topics you cover, and how you have been able to provide a good level of detail, without going too deep into the weeds.
Comments below:
I LOVE this chapter. I love the idea of teams pre-registering their research, and keeping track of how they collect their data.
I'm going to caveat what I say next with this: I have never done an actual research project that went anywhere near ending up in a journal. So these points may be irrelevant. Nevertheless:
As a researcher, I likely need to estimate what the lifecycle of my project will look like. While I may be able to estimate with a reasonable amount of accuracy how long a given analysis will take, it seems that it will be really hard for me to estimate all the steps I typically don't do/don't know. (Since I've never done them, I have no idea what level of effort is required).
Furthermore, I am likely somewhat fuzzy on what flow - what steps have to happen when.
Having said that, I would love to see some or all of the following included:
- A checklist of things I should do and in what order
- A flowchart of steps (Similar to what you have on page Collaboration #13, but with more detail)
- Time ranges for these tasks or a way to estimate the time ranges.
I also love that you provide a Pre-Analysis Plan Template but it's buried in the wiki link - and I think it should be more prominent.
Thank you!!