- Rather than making funding and publishing dependent on results you can just encourage proper enquiry and the process. - One downside about using registered reports is that there might be too many research papers being generated. Nachiket pointed out that as it is there is so much literature to consume. ----- "An example of a congressive version is the “registered reports” format for publishing research. Unlike the ingressive system, where dramatic positive results are favoured, in this congressive system peer review is conducted on the research question and the methodology before the data are collected. Thus it is the process that is reviewed, not the answer. The idea is that if the question is interesting and the methodology is sound, then the result of the experiment is interesting whether it turns out to be positive or negative. Psychology researcher Alexander Danvers writes that when this method is used “there are no research failures.” He argues that the (ingressive) approach of trying to get “eye-catching, wild” results does not do as much for cumulative scientific understanding, and that celebrating such high-risk work when it does go well skews scientific culture so that scientists spend more time on questions that are of interest only when the results are positive" [[Eugenia Cheung]] in [[x + y]]