- Value [1] Scientific Method
- The chief thing which separates a scientific method of inquiry from other methods of acquiring knowledge is that scientists
seek to let reality speak for itself, and contradict their theories about it when those theories are incorrect. . .
- Value [2] Reality
- Value [3] Hypotheses
- Scientific researchers propose hypotheses as explanations of phenomena, and design experimental studies to test these hypotheses
via predictions which can be derived from them.
- Value [4] Predictions
- Value [5] Repeatability
- These steps must be repeatable, to guard against mistake or confusion in any particular experimenter. . . .
- Value [6] Documentation
- Scientific inquiry is generally intended to . . . document, archive and share all data and methodology so they are available
for careful scrutiny by other scientists, giving them the opportunity to verify results by attempting to reproduce them.
- Value [7] Archival
- Value [8] Data Sharing
- Value [9] Verification
- Value [10] Replication
- Value [11] Openness
- Three areas of scientific practice—data, methods and tools, and workflow—are largely closed in present scientific practices.
Increasing openness in each of them would substantially improve scientific progress.
- Value [12] Scientific Progress
- Value [13] Transparency
- Value [14] Responsibility
- Value [15] Credibility
- Value [16] Accuracy
- Value [17] Technology
- Existing technologies allow us to translate some of this ideal into practice. We make our unpublished manuscripts available
at personal Web pages (e.g., http://briannosek.com/) and public repositories (http://ssrn.com/). We make our study materials
and tools available at personal Web pages (e.g., http://people.virginia.edu/~msm6sw/materials.html; http://people.virginia.edu/~js6ew/).
We make data available through the Dataverse Network (e.g., http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/bnosek), and we are contributing
to the design and construction of the Open Science Framework for comprehensive management and disclosure of our scientific
workflow (http://openscienceframework.org/).
- Value [18] Accountability
- Opening our research process will make us feel accountable to do our best to get it right and, if we do not get it right,
to increase the opportunities for others to detect the problems and correct them.
- Value [19] Humanity
- Openness is not needed because we are untrustworthy; it is needed because we are human.
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