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05-narrative-laundering

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Audit how an empirical write-up presents its analytical choices, and detect the rhetorical moves that convert a specification search into an apparently confirmatory finding. Covers HARKing, robustness theatre, selective disclosure, the vanishing pilot study, and estimator-choice narratives. Use when reviewing a paper or an agent-produced report for undisclosed search, refereeing an empirical manuscript, or scoring whether an agent disclosed the specification search it actually ran.

When to use

• reviewing a paper for undisclosed search
• refereeing an empirical manuscript
• scoring agent disclosure of specification search
• detecting HARKing
• detecting robustness theatre
• detecting selective disclosure
• detecting vanishing pilot study
• detecting estimator-choice narratives

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