Session 10 – Reading the curve and publishing the work

In the closing session you first read properly what the class built in session 9: the conversion that puts every estimator and every outcome scale on one axis, then what a specification curve establishes, what it cannot, and which of the current arguments against multiverse analysis apply to the grid you just sampled. You then turn the report into something that another person can find, open and re-render.

Work through	What you do	Timing
The statistical methods behind the course	Section 10: putting results from different estimators and different outcome scales on one axis, which is the conversion that the class chart uses.	30 minutes
The multiverse and its critics	Where the idea came from, the three purposes that a multiverse can serve and why they pull apart, and the critical positions of 2025–26 read against the course grid.	60 minutes
Reading a specification curve	Why 840 estimates are not 840 independent tests, what a permutation design would supply, and what stands without one.	45 minutes
Git and GitHub for reproducible research	Version control from first principles, a repository of your own, and what belongs in git and what must never be committed.	90 minutes

By the end of the session you have your report in a version-controlled repository with a licence-aware .gitignore, and a closing paragraph stating what the curve you helped build does and does not establish about the claim.