This course aims to provide a critical view on the “rules of a game named science” and introduces remedies to the manifold issues jeopardizing the credibility of scientific results: power calculations, confirmatory research (pre-registration), and open and transparent research practices (see, e.g., Wagenmakers et al., 2012; Miguel et al., 2014; Munafo et al., 2017).

In addition, the course covers the fundamentals of meta-analysis, a method used to systematically combine results from multiple studies to assess consistency, resolve conflicting findings, and improve the precision of effect size estimation (e.g., Stanley, 2001; Borenstein et al., 2009; Irsova et al., 2024).