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statistical significance

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 17, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Psychology
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At ScienceNews: Statistical significance as a strange idea

Denyse O'Leary
August 17, 2021
Intelligent Design, Psychology
Bower: To make matters worse, psychology journals began to publish papers only if they reported statistically significant findings, prompting a surprisingly large number of investigators to massage their data — either by gaming the system or cheating — to get below the P value of 0.05 that granted that status. Inevitably, bogus findings and chance associations began to proliferate. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 19, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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Why “statistical significance” is corrupting science

Denyse O'Leary
September 19, 2020
Intelligent Design
Smith: When I was a young assistant professor at Yale, one of my senior colleagues, Nobel Laureate James Tobin, wryly observed that the bad old days when researchers had to do calculations by hand were actually a blessing. The effort was so great that people thought hard before calculating. They put theory before data. Today, with terabytes of data and lightning-fast computers, it is too easy to calculate first, think later. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 23, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Another look at the call to abandon statistical significance

Denyse O'Leary
April 23, 2019
Intelligent Design, Peer review
In an era where even medical journals are urged to get woke, abandoning statistical significance could mean abandoning a refuge against Correct nonsense. As Brookshire writes, “Unfortunately, there is no single alternative that everyone agrees would be better for all experiments.” But that might just be what some factions want and need. Read More ›