I’ve just finished reading a great book: Hubbard, R. (2015). Corrupt research. Sage. I’ve just given it a five-star review on Amazon. In brief, Hubbard is highly–as in extremely highly–critical of the conventional ‘significant difference’ paradigm, centred on finding p …
Pierre Dragicevic (that’s his pic of a scary die!) is a super-interesting and enthusiastic researcher in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) based at the Université Paris-Sud, an hour or so south of Paris. He is a researcher in the AVIZ Visual Analytics Project. He hosts …
Well, the p is a bit scary, but the .06 is nothing special.
Wendy Harmer is a great comedian and also a high-rating host on Sydney chat radio. Recently I (Geoff) had great fun chatting with her about p hacking, following my article in The Conversation on that topic. (See earlier post.) Here’s …
‘The Conversation’ is a non-profit online publication with the tag line ‘academic rigour, journalistic flair’. Starting in Australia a few years back and, at first, largely funded by universities, it is spreading worldwide, with editions in a number of countries, and recently …
Are you hearing ‘The Conversation’? This time on p hacking. Read more »
Here’s another incredible paper by John Ioannidis and associates. This one uses text mining to examining the statistical results of thousands of cognitive neuroscience and psychology papers. It finds that sample sizes being used remain far too small: the typical …
Here is an interesting new paper in which experienced researchers were asked to make judgements about research results expressed using the NHST approach (p values!). A free copy of the paper is here, but it is easier to read the …