If this is happening with other pre-prints, it is also effectively unmasking the authors on papers that might be under review with a double-blind process.

(This particular journal does single-blind review so it was inconsequential for me, but seems like it could well be a concern for others.)

It seems that Web of Science picked up that a pre-print of the paper appeared on OSF. Last I checked, that's not the same thing as being published in a journal.

Web of Science is sending me hallucinatory emails. Presumably there's some AI involved?

Thank you!

Without maintaining the constant shift assumption, I understand MW’s U as a test of stochastic dominance, which is something that some statisticians get into on the weekends with other consenting statisticians.

As far as I understand, inference for the median requires assuming a constant shift in the distribution (e.g., a unit-constant treatment effect), in which case you can also interpret MW’s U as a test of mean differences, or differences in 3rd quartiles, or 42nd percentiles.

Mann-Whitney U is not a test of medians.

And @jrzhang.bsky.social and I have been thinking about PPCs for evaluating meta-analytic models, especially around choices of effect metric.

For sure this is one direction I have in mind. @paulinagrekov.bsky.social and I have been writing about PPCs as a bridge for helping applied researchers (w/o much statistical training, from Special Education) interpret and evaluate Bayesian GLMMs. jepusto.com/publications...

For sure. Psychometricians will talk about predictive validity (or predictive validation evidence) but that does quite capture the vibe of what I mean.

I’m not familiar. Will look it up!

(As oppose to using a model merely as a conventional summary of a dataset, or worse, a traditional incantation one recites over one’s data before offering it up for publication.)

I've been playing with it too, with pretty good results, but I'm still struggling with latex table layout and placement. Have you had success using it with flextable or any other tools for programmatically generating tex tables?

It’s not a surprise. I’d say methodology folks were well aware that p-curve had problems since McShane, Bockenholt, & Hansen 2016 doi.org/10.1177/1745.... The contribution of the new paper is to build up theory for *why* and what specific features of the method create problems.