Introduction to the New Statistics
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Updated 5/21: fixed a typo, added a section on when p > .05 demonstrates a negligible effect, and added a figure at the end. Daniel Lakens recently posted a pre-print with a rousing defense of the much-maligned p-value: In essence, the …
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Prereg Workshop at APS Steve Lindsay usefully posted a comment to draw our attention to the Preregistration Workshop on offer at the APS Convention coming up shortly in D.C.. You can scan the full list of Workshops here–there are lots …
Judging Replicability Whenever we read a research article we almost certainly form a judgment of its believability. To what extent is it plausible? To what extent could it be replicated? What are the chances that the findings are true? What …
Judging Replicability: Fiona’s repliCATS Project Read more »
The APS has just released this Research Spotlight item: Suddenly it’s more than 5 years since APS made some important and very early steps to promote Open Science and new-statistics practices. Back in Jan 2014, then Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science, …
Well, that might be a stretch, but in relation to the Nature Comment that Bob and I signed to support, Altmetric tweeted: John Ioannidis published this criticism of the Comment, with the subtitle Do Not Abandon Significance. Much of what …
Ditching Statistical Significance: The Most Talked-About Paper Ever? Read more »
A couple of days ago, the three authors of the Nature paper accompanying the special issue of TAS on moving beyond p < .05 sent the update below. (See below for lots of links.) We are writing with a brief …
The 43 articles in The American Statistician discussing what researchers should do in a “post p<.05” world are now online. See here for a list of them all, with links to each article. The collection starts with an editorial: Go …
Nature (!) has just published an editorial discussing and advocating that statistical significance should be ditched. For me, that’s the stuff of dreams, but I have lived to see it happen! I’m so happy! Here’s one para from the editorial: …
Last month I (Bob) visited a local elementary school for a “Science Alliance” visit. This is a program in our community to being local scientists into the classroom. I brought the Cartoon Network simulator I have been developing (Calin-Jageman, 2017, …