[timr]

> Releasing the data won't really help much if the data generating process is flawed. Sure, other people will be able to run different kind of analyses (e.g., jackknife your standard errors instead of just using a robust correction), but I'm not sure how helpful that will be.

It allows motivated people to catch more subtle forms of nonsense. Data colada, for example, has caught outright fraud, but only through herculean efforts. Imagine what groups like this might do if they had the raw data.