| Required data: No data from the Cogitate project will be used. High-level summary of project: In the era of the widely accepted replication crisis, an aspect of the standard research pipeline has been systematically overlooked: the experimental setup. This crucial part of research project can malfunction in a variety of ways. Yet so far, no thorough investigation has been pursued to assess the impact of the most common malfuctions on the obtained results. More importantly, no clear testing framework exists to this day to control for experimental setup malfunction. In this project, we ambition to investigate the impact of the most common malfunctions by simulating them on published data sets to be found. Rich of our experience in testing experimental paradigms in many sites in the Cogitate project, we will develop a testing framework aimed at controlling the well functioning of experimental setup by testing only the critical part to ensure efficient, easy to implement and consistent control. |