Fig. 6: Perceived and actual opinions about open science by discipline—pushlished authors.

The chart shows differences between perceived and actual support for two practices: posting data or code online and pre-registering hypotheses or analyses. The sample is restricted to published authors. Each panel represents the same published authors in a particular discipline. Within each panel, the first green and red bars show the distribution of support for Posting data or code, with green segments indicating more and red segments less support. The second bar shows the perceived distribution of support for the practice among published authors. This is constructed by asking individuals what percentage of researchers in their field they believe fall into each opinion category and then averaging over their responses. The third and fourth bars are analogous bars showing actual and perceived support for pre-registration. Panel a shows data from all published author responses, and Panels b–e show responses from published authors identified as economists, political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists, respectively.