Thanks, Ben!

Often we only have "crap" to put down 😅, but be it as it may. I think Becker talked about it in one chpt: jotting down ideas in whatever form allows your thinking to flow first. It takes many iterations for a good sentence to take shape (and that sentence may likely be deleted in the final draft 🤣).

I also remember reading Howard Becker's "Writing for Social Scientists" helped back in those days. It is a fun little book to read, and a perfect way to procrastinate. ;)

Not that this solves any problem (don't remember where I saved it from), but good to keep in mind that everybody struggles... 😅

Even with evidence to "solve the issues," though, self-correction is hard. A previous meta-analysis on third-person effect that we corrected got included in a meta-analysis book years after we published our paper. It is still cited, sometimes together with ours, which shows our paper wasn't read 😆

They said our statements "are speculative and could lead to possible legal implications"-- our "statements" they referred to actually only cited Nuiijten et al. (2016) to make the point that errors were prevalent and may sometimes reflect conscious or unconscious bias of the researchers :).

We were also threatened by one of the reviewers, who was obviously an author of the meta-analysis that we critiqued. That was quite an experience for me :).