The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability
It is well-known in statistics (e.g., Gelman & Carlin, 2014) that treating a result as publishable just because the p-value is less than 0.05 leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability. These effects get published, leading to an overconfident belief in replicability. We demonstrate th...
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| Language: | English |
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Academic Press Inc.
2018
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