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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 …
I had great fun yesterday visiting NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia), a large research institute in Sydney. I was hosted by Simon Gandevia, Deputy Director, who has been a long-time proponent of Open Science and The New Statistics. Neura’s Research Quality …
Does This Effect Replicate? It seems almost irresistible to think in terms of such a dichotomous question! We seem to crave an ‘it-did’ or ‘it-didn’t’ answer! However, rarely if ever is a bald yes-no decision the most informative way to …
Replications: How Should We Analyze the Results? Read more »
Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research & Open Science (AIMOS) I had a fascinating two days down at the University of Melbourne last week for the first AIMOS conference. The program is here and you can click through to see details of …
AIMOS — The New Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science Association Read more »