Why not both? Using multiple measures to improve reliability in infant studies

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Abstract

Byers-Heinlein et al. suggest six practical solutions to increase reliability in infant experimentation. Here I add a seventh solution, which is recording multiple measures from the same infant and trial. Recording multiple measures is relatively easy to implement in many cases, and has additional advantages. I survey several ways to accomplish this and recommend preregistering hypotheses and analyses plans beforehand to avoid adding researcher's degrees of freedom. Multiple measurements are complementary to Byers-Heinlein et al.'s (2021) solutions and should be used in tandem with them to further the quality of research in the field.

Original languageEnglish
JournalInfant and Child Development
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2022

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author. Infant and Child Development published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Keywords

  • measurement
  • preregistration
  • reliability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

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