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How do you write a PAP in practice, especially in limited time?
Regardless of how you feel about @The_JOP’s new policy, a lot of political scientists will be writing PAPs for the first time.
I wanted to share my experiences/thoughts having written many PAPs.
Thread follows..🧵
1. What counts as a PAP? In my view, all that makes a PAP a PAP is that it pre-specifies procedures for data analysis, ideally as precisely as possible.
Note what this does *not* include: lit review, theory, etc.
Some people like to write PAPs that include all this, but...
..I do not think this is necessary. In my view, as long as your PAP pre-specifies procedures for data analysis, it’s a PAP, regardless of what else you may want to add to it. Add more if you want, but you don’t need to imo.
That means PAPs can be super short/fast to write.
2. How do you do this practically?
Idea 1: For people getting started, I highly recommend https://t.co/EbxOOIHr8Z. Screenshot attached. You’ll answer 6 questions about your analysis, each answer requires ~a few sentences. Should take you around 15 minutes. And that’s it!
The tool will create a) an anonymized PDF with your answers you can upload with a paper submission and b) a blinded link (eg https://t.co/hTHH0rb4wg) you can include that verifies you pre-registered. And you’re done!
There’s many more options. Here’s two more things I’ve done:
Regardless of how you feel about @The_JOP’s new policy, a lot of political scientists will be writing PAPs for the first time.
I wanted to share my experiences/thoughts having written many PAPs.
Thread follows..🧵
1. What counts as a PAP? In my view, all that makes a PAP a PAP is that it pre-specifies procedures for data analysis, ideally as precisely as possible.
Note what this does *not* include: lit review, theory, etc.
Some people like to write PAPs that include all this, but...
..I do not think this is necessary. In my view, as long as your PAP pre-specifies procedures for data analysis, it’s a PAP, regardless of what else you may want to add to it. Add more if you want, but you don’t need to imo.
That means PAPs can be super short/fast to write.
2. How do you do this practically?
Idea 1: For people getting started, I highly recommend https://t.co/EbxOOIHr8Z. Screenshot attached. You’ll answer 6 questions about your analysis, each answer requires ~a few sentences. Should take you around 15 minutes. And that’s it!
The tool will create a) an anonymized PDF with your answers you can upload with a paper submission and b) a blinded link (eg https://t.co/hTHH0rb4wg) you can include that verifies you pre-registered. And you’re done!
There’s many more options. Here’s two more things I’ve done: