Deliberately unfavorable research conditions increase the chance findings replicate.

Evidence

But you may have noticed that I myself put my most important measure at the beginning of my booklets, run subjects in large numbers, usually in their classrooms, whenever the class meets, usually in September when it almost always is their first experiment; moreover, I frequently have them serve anonymously. … Nevertheless, can you see why this increases the chances that other researchers will find as high or higher alphas for the RWA Scale than I do, and the chances that my RWA Scale findings will be replicated elsewhere??? — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 875

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general replication-crisis discussion and methodological debates in psychology (e.g., open science, preregistration).
• DEEPTHINKING: A counterintuitive methodological insight: creating harder conditions for one’s own measure makes the finding more robust — a genuine paradigm of validity through self-sabotage.