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The Uptake of Preregistration, and Its Impact on the Proportion of Supported Hypotheses, in Sports Science

Hunter Bennett, Henry Blake, Noah d’Unienville, James Murray, and Jordan Fox · 2026

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Section 01 of 07

  1. 01Key Points
  2. 02Introduction
  3. 03Methods
  4. 04Results
  5. 05Discussion
  6. 06Conclusions
  7. 07Supplementary Information
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Work overview

Section 1 of 7

Key Points

Hunter Bennett, Henry Blake, Noah d’Unienville, James Murray, and Jordan Fox · about 1 minutes

Approximately 10% of sports science studies are preregistered.
Preregistered studies report supporting their hypotheses slightly less often than non-registered studies, but the difference is not practically meaningful.
Nearly 70% of preregistered studies report hypotheses that differ from their original preregistration.