"This pattern seems difficult to explain as the result of a natural process, as does the correlation between white blood cell count and patient ID number of 0.45."

Oh dear

I don't think this scenario is explicitly covered in the moderation case list but it sounds like a plausible use case so you might as well give it a try?

This is roughly what our ethics code says, in politer words. But getting either researchers or ethics committee members to pay any attention to it is another story....

Reasonably simple ones:

routledgeopenresearch.org/articles/2-3...

doi.org/10.5114/cipp...

More complicated:
doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

Do these suit?

May the search for moderators and mediators commence!

In psychology it's more like "anything with a vaguely right wing vibe"

Agreed. Though while we're being pessimistic, one worry I have is that preprint servers are a very easy target for anyone trying to manipulate citation stats on existing papers.

Nice! This lines up with work by @eddieclarke.bsky.social showing that the people who endorse the midpoint of the left-right item are far from homogeneous...

osf.io/preprints/ps...

d = 3.6

(Original estimate less a completely made-up factor for publication bias)