Concern about publication bias apparently goes back at least as far at Robert Boyle in the 17th century. That’s Barker Bausell’s starting point for his highly detailed account of the replication crisis and rise of Open Science. Bausell, the author …
Open Science: A Detailed Telling of the Story So Far Read more »
The APS has just given a kick along to what’s most likely a myth: The Lucky Golf Ball. Alas! Golf.com recently ran a story titled ‘Lucky’ golf items might actually work, according to study. The story told of Tiger Woods …
The Myth (?) of the Lucky Golf Ball Lives On, Alas Read more »
In brief The Journal of Physiology is embracing a number of Open Science practices and has just published an editorial highly critical of the p value. Yay! In less brief Simon Gandevia, of the NeuRA research institute in Sydney, has …
The Journal of Physiology Adopts Better Practices and Excoriates p Values Read more »
An appreciative comment on YouTube reminds me I haven’t mentioned Significance Roulette for a while, yet its message that a p value can’t be trusted remains as relevant as ever. Dance of the p Values The dance of the p …
Reminder: Significance Roulette Still Tells Us a p Value Can’t be Trusted Read more »
I haven’t read this book–it won’t reach here for a while–but Fiona has written a critique that’s certainly worth reading. Out this week in Nature, you can find her assessment here. From Fiona’s review: “Together with his overview of the …
Just had an update about Fiona’s big project to study how well researchers can judge the chance that some result can be replicated. She and the team are doing well, but need a last push during July to meet their …
Will that result replicate? Contribute some judgments to Fiona’s repliCATS project Read more »
Update: The great figures below were produced using the wonderful Estimation Statistics package. See also Ho, et al. (2019). Back in August Bob posted (here) about eNeuro‘s great initiative to encourage authors to use estimation. The latest eNeuro email update …
A recent viewpoint article (free download) in JAMA argues that decisions should not be based on mere p value criteria, but need “consideration of the outcome in terms of effect size and accompanying CIs, [and] placing the findings from the …
A great collection of articles in the latest issue of PLAT. Contents page here. At that page, click to see the abstract of any article. A big shout out to the wonderful editorial team that assembled this special issue: Susan …
Teaching in the New Era of Psychological Science Read more »
Psychological Science, the journal, has for years pushed hard for publication of better, more trustworthy research. First there was the leadership of Eric Eich, then Steve Lindsay energetically took the baton. Steve is about to finish, no doubt to his …