In this video, we look at what that expression “researcher degree of freedom” means. The term highlights how in quantitative research, we (have to) make a lot of choices when doing the analysis. (This actually also applies to qualitative research, but I haven’t seen the expression used in that context, yet.) These choices can affect the results we get.
I use an example to outline some of the choices in a simple regression model, and emphasize that we should try to empirically the effect of our choices on the results we report.
Didier Ruedin 