The Red Team Challenge (Part 3): Is it Feasible in Practice?

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By Daniel Lakens & Leo Tiokhin Also read Part 1 and Part 2 in this series on our Red Team Challenge . Six weeks ago, we launched the Red Team Challenge : a feasibility study to see whether it could be worthwhile to pay people to find errors in scientific research. In our project, we wanted to see to what extent a “Red Team” - people hired to criticize a scientific study with the goal to improve it - would improve the quality of the resulting scientific work. Currently, the way that error detecti