Corrigendum for "Too tired to vote: a multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors" [Elect. Stud., 78 (2022), 102491]

Abstract

In section 2.1, we stated that H1 was pre-registered: “Considering this evidence, we pre-registered the hypothesis that greater sleep duration may be associated with higher turnout across a wider range of national contexts (but see section 5.3 for the additional theoretical argument and analysis that substantiates a curvilinear relationship between sleep duration and turnout that we did not anticipate a priori) [emphasis added].” This is not correct, as H1 was not pre-registered on the Open Science Framework (OSF). What we should have said is that “Considering this evidence, we formulated the hypothesis that greater sleep duration may be associated with higher turnout.” We apologize for the error. Although H1 was not pre-registered, we nonetheless hope that our decisions—first, to retain our a priori hypothesis H1 at the beginning of the paper even though it is not borne out in the results and, second, to acknowledge the post hoc curvilinear analyses in section 5.3 as exploratory—added transparency to our research process, which was our intent in this passage. For readers interested in the OSF pre-registration, its content was accurately described in footnote 1 in the paper and a link to the pre-registration is available there.