Economist Proposes AI Audits to Enforce Pre-Analysis Plans and Curb P-Hacking

Harvard economist Jeffrey Clemens proposes using AI tools to audit whether studies follow their pre-analysis plans at scale, arguing this could curb p-hacking and become a standard use case for AI in research.

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