Open Science Coding day 935: I have seen several papers that say something like "the present study was not preregistered but the hypotheses are present in the literature/past work/obvious/etc." The issue is not whether the hypotheses are reasonable, but rather, when they became the hypotheses.
I remember some senior faculty in my doctoral program proclaiming that what was happening in the program (presentation of developing plans, feedback on dissertation proposals) made preregistration redundant.>
That made me think that their memory must be *extremely* selective because it was often quite transparent (for those attending the internal events) how hypotheses were changed after the fact to provide a clean narrative 😭
Selective memory is a very kind way of putting it.