Upfront design beats post hoc reliability fixes.
Trends Cogn Sci 2026 May 06. [Online ahead of print]

Abstract

Behavioral tasks often show robust group effects yet unreliable person-level estimates. Many 'reliability fixes' yield mixed results because they rarely change the two determinants of person-level reliability: trials per person and per-trial informativeness. Recent evidence supports this two-lever view and motivates routine reliability auditing and measurement engineering for translational use.

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Dang JSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. Electronic address: dangjunhua@gmail.com.
Xiao SSchool of Humanities and Education, Xi'an Eurasia University, Xi'an, China. Electronic address: shanshan.xiao619@gmail.com.

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Journal Article

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eng

PubMed ID

42097942