Specification Searches¶
Leamer, E. E. (1978). Specification Searches: Ad Hoc Inference with Nonexperimental Data. John Wiley & Sons.
Cited by¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Domain-specific¶
- HARKing (Hypothesizing After the Results are Known)
- . Biomedical and clinical research — where outcome switching between protocol and publication is the same hypothesis-side reverse-engineering, and trial preregistration (ClinicalTrials.gov) is the institutional cure. Neuroimaging — where the sheer number of voxel-by-condition cells makes the garden of forking paths most severe, so post-hoc selection of "predicted" activations is acutely inflating. Metascience / metaresearch — empirical measurement of HARKing's prevalence and of its effect-size inflation across literatures, treating "was the hypothesis fixed before the data?" as a measurable study attribute. Editorial and journal policy — where the confirmatory-versus-exploratory distinction, registered reports, and pre-analysis plans are written into submission rules with HARKing as the named rationale. Statistical-error analysis — separating analysis-side multiple-testing corrections (Bonferroni, Holm, FDR) from the hypothesis-side ordering violation they cannot reach, locating each remedy by where in the procedure it bites. Economics — where the identical move is called specification searching
This sourceThe book that names specification searches in econometrics, the data-instigated choice of a model specification from nonexperimental data.
Supported in partVerified against the source
- . Biomedical and clinical research — where outcome switching between protocol and publication is the same hypothesis-side reverse-engineering, and trial preregistration (ClinicalTrials.gov) is the institutional cure. Neuroimaging — where the sheer number of voxel-by-condition cells makes the garden of forking paths most severe, so post-hoc selection of "predicted" activations is acutely inflating. Metascience / metaresearch — empirical measurement of HARKing's prevalence and of its effect-size inflation across literatures, treating "was the hypothesis fixed before the data?" as a measurable study attribute. Editorial and journal policy — where the confirmatory-versus-exploratory distinction, registered reports, and pre-analysis plans are written into submission rules with HARKing as the named rationale. Statistical-error analysis — separating analysis-side multiple-testing corrections (Bonferroni, Holm, FDR) from the hypothesis-side ordering violation they cannot reach, locating each remedy by where in the procedure it bites. Economics — where the identical move is called specification searching
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Read against the text for 1 of 1 citation: 1 supported in part. Each verdict is shown under its citation below, with what in the work backs the sentence.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
Registry ID ref:7b93980a96b0 · see in the full table