5 years ago today, March 20, 2019: the Start of “Abandon Significance”
Error Statistics Philosophy,
.. Five years ago on this day, a news correspondent at NPR, Richard Harris, published this article, the same day as…
Are ‘healthy’ substitutes worth the extra cost? Here’s why you shouldn’t fall for low-carb, whole-wheat, all-natural labels at the grocery store
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Was Meta-Analysen können und was nicht
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Gerade war mit der Cochrane-Masken-Studie eine Meta-Analyse in den Schlagzeilen – und das zu einem politisch sehr aufgeladenen…
How Do Scientists Know Whether to Trust Their Results?
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Reproducibility: The science communities’ ticking timebomb. Can we still trust published research?
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SGEM Xtra: Are tPA Stroke Trials Really Fragile?
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Statistical significance and its critics: practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice?
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Statistical significance and its critics: practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice? …
HIRSCHAUER, GRÜNER,
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This blog is based on the book of the same name by Norbert Hirschauer, Sven Grüner, and Oliver Mußhoff that was published in…
Did male and female dinosaurs differ? A new statistical technique is helping answer the question
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Author: Evan Thomas Saitta, Postdoctoral Scholar in Paleontology, University of…
RLiable: Towards Reliable Evaluation
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Posted by Rishabh Agarwal, Research Scientist and Pablo Samuel Castro, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team …
A teaching tool about the fickle p-value and other statistical principles based on real-life data
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A poor understanding of what results from statistical tests do and do not mean and an over-reliance on p-values is seen as a…
O valor do valor-p!
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Qualquer um que já tenha trabalhado com pesquisa quantitativa e, especialmente, com pesquisa experimental (ou pelo menos tenha…
Winning streaks, randomness, and cognitive bias: Are Man United getting better under Solskjaer?
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Why p values can’t tell you what you need to know and what to do about it
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The Ageing Soma, Screening and All-Cause Mortality
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Paul Pharoah is Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge, where he leads research on the molecular…
EBM 2.0
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“EBM 1.0 was riddled with bugs, does not function and is no longer supported. Continued use of EBM requires an update to EBM 2.0…
The Insignificance of Significance Testing
towards data science,
A case for overcoming the p-valueContinue reading on Towards Data Science »
The significant problems of p-values
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Misunderstandings of p-values are common in research.Continue reading on Towards Data Science »
Dr Ian Fairlea on Epidemiological Evidence of Cancer Risks
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The Hazards of Tritium,https://www.ianfairlie.org/news/the-hazards-of-tritium/ , Dr Ian Fairlie, March 13, 2020 “……….Epidemiolo…
SGEM Xtra: It’s All About the Bayes, ‘Bout the Bayes, No Fisher
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Guest Skeptic: Dr. Dan Lane has a Masters in Health Services Research at the University of Calgary, a Doctor of Philosophy in…
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A. Saltelli (Guest post): What can we learn from the debate on statistical significance?
Error Statistics Philosophy,
Professor Andrea Saltelli Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen (UIB, Norway),
Estimation vs Hypothesis-Testing
Partnership for Assessment and Accreditation of Scientific Practice,
As some of our readers may know, the PAASP team was involved in the “Negative results Award” project that took place in 2018.
Deborah Mayo on Banning Significance Tests
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[Excerpts taken from the article “P-value Thresholds: Forfeit at Your Peril’ by Deborah Mayo, forthcoming in the European…
Retire Statistical Significance?
On Biostatistics and Clinical Trials,
In the March issue of The American Statistician, there was a special issue with 43 papers about “Statistical Inference in the…
Research of the Month: It’s time to retire statistical significance
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In another of our monthly blog post written by Science Wordsmith Lucy Goodchild, we explore the findings and attention around a…
Sam Watson’s journal round-up for 6th May 2019
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Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don…
Statistical Significance and the Sweet Siren of Self-Confirmation: A Reply to Taylor
EconoSpeak,
Just as Ulysses had himself chained to the mast of his ship so he wouldn’t succumb to the lure of the Sirens, John Ionnidis and…
Abandoning statistical significance is both sensible and practical
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science,
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blakeley McShane, and I write: Dr Ioannidis writes against our proposals [here and here…
What’s That? The Replication Crisis is Good for Science?
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(Image:Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) Science is in the midst of a crisis: A surprising fraction of published studies fail to…
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Reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia—old steroids, new tricks
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The replication crisis is good for science
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¿Es el fin de la “significación estadística”? La batalla para hacer la ciencia más incierta
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El desmantelamiento de los estándares aceptados de evidencia estadística disminuirá la incertidumbre que los científicos tienen…
Is it the end of ‘statistical significance’? The battle to make science more uncertain
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A new paper considers whether scientific research is really 'moving to a world beyond p
Hot Topics: Rise up against statistical significance, probably.
guidetopharmacology blog,
A recent commentary in Nature has the provocative title “Retire Statistical Significance” (1, with a list of more than 800…
Scientists call for an end to statistical significance
The Aperiodical,
A group of over 800 scientists have signed their names to an article published in Nature, explaining why statistical…
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Sobre la muletilla “estadísticamente significativo” y la controversia que suscita
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1. The story of Boeing and the apparent failings in the design of its flight-control software is yet another example of the…
Devemos aposentar a significância estatística?
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Na semana passada viralizou artigo da Nature com o título “Retire Statistical Significance”, o qual traz reflexão crítica a…
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Insignificant significance
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Here's a new commentary on the concept of statistical significance which I like because it's written in plain language and its…
Down with dichotomous statistical significance
EASE Blog,
Sick of seeing unwarranted claims of non-association or overconfident claims in scientific literature, in a Comment published…
Statistical Significance and Toxicity
Science-Based Medicine,
Researchers propose to get rid of the use statistical significance in science reporting. The idea has merit.
The Case For Accurate Reporting Of “Nonsignificant” Results
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Empirical research based on experiments and data analysis requires an objective measure of the pre-experimental difference…
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The Guardian view on statistics in sciences: gaming the (un)known | Editorial
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Statisticians are calling on their profession to abandon one of its most treasured markers of significance. But what could…
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Alexander J. Stein,
Bucketing results into ‘statistically significant’ vs ‘non-significant’ makes people think they are categorically different.
Wissenschaftler gegen Statistische Signifikanz
Mathlog,
Mehr als 800 Wissenschaftler haben einen Brandbrief gegen die Verwendung des Begriffs „Statistische Signifikanz“ veröffentlicht…
A strange "letter against statistical significance"
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Dave starts his blogging in his new home: Over at the CGD blog, Dave Evans and Fei Yuan discuss their new work reviewing 250…
Get Rid of “Statistical Significance”
NeuroLogica Blog,
A new paper published in Nature, and signed by over 800 researchers, adds to the growing backlash against overreliance on P-value…
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naked capitalism,
abandon ship [value]!!!
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The Abandon Statistical Significance paper we wrote with Blakeley B. McShane, David Gal, Andrew Gelman, and Jennifer L. Tackett…
The Case Against ‘Statistical Significance’ in Scientific Research
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A recent study that questioned the healthfulness of eggs raised a perpetual question: Why do studies, as has been the case with…
HIRSCHAUER ET AL.: Twenty Steps Towards an Adequate Inferential Interpretation of p-Values in Econometrics
The Replication Network,
This blog is based on the homonymous paper by Norbert Hirschauer, Sven Grüner, Oliver Mußhoff, and Claudia Becker in the…
Time to say goodbye to “statistically significant” and embrace uncertainty, say statisticians
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Three years ago, the American Statistical Association (ASA) expressed hope that the world would move to a “post-p-value era.…
850 ученых и один журнал высказались против статистической значимости
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“Retire Statistical Significance”: A Call to Join the Discussion
The Replication Network,
[From the blog “‘Retire Statistical Significance’: The discussion” by Andrew Gelman, posted at Statistical Modeling, Causal…
Statisticians' Call To Arms: Reject Significance And Embrace Uncertainty!
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Statisticians say it may not be wise to put all their eggs in the significance basket.; Credit: intraprese/Getty…
“Retire Statistical Significance”: The discussion.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science,
So, the paper by Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, and Blake McShane that we discussed a few weeks ago has just appeared…