Conceptual and Statistical Knowledge

 

The New Statistics: Research Integrity & the New Statistics (Workshop Part 2)

A video about Research Integrity & the New Statistics

The New Statistics: The New Statistics in Action (Workshop Part 4)

A video about New statistics in action

The new statistics: Why and how

We need to make substantial changes to how we conduct research. First, in response to heightened concern that our published research literature is incomplete and untrustworthy, we need new requirements to ensure research integrity. These include …

The Null Ritual What You Always Wanted to Know About Significance Testing but Were Afraid to Ask

A chapter about significance testing

The Open Science Training Handbook

A group of fourteen authors came together in February 2018 at the TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology) in Hannover to create an open, living handbook on Open Science training. High-quality trainings are fundamental when aiming at a …

The p-value misconception eradication challenge

If you have educational material that you think will do a better job at preventing p-value misconceptions than the material in my MOOC, join the p-value misconception eradication challenge by proposing an improvement to my current material in a new …

The Persistence of Underpowered Studies in Psychological Research: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies

Underpowered studies persist in the psychological literature. This article examines reasons for their persistence and the effects on efforts to create a cumulative science. The "curse of multiplicities" plays a central role in the presentation. Most …

The poor availability of syntaxes of structural equation modeling

The syntax or codes used to fit Structural Equation Models (SEMs) convey valuable information on model specifications and the manner in which SEMs are estimated. We requested SEM syntaxes from a random sample of 229 articles (published in 1998–2013) …

The prevalence of statistical reporting errors in psychology (1985–2013)

This study documents reporting errors in a sample of over 250,000 p-values reported in eight major psychology journals from 1985 until 2013, using the new R package “statcheck.” statcheck retrieved null-hypothesis significance testing (NHST) results …

The psychological reality of the learned “p < .05” boundary

The .05 boundary within Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing (NHST) “has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move” (to quote Douglas Adams). Here, we move past meta-scientific arguments and ask an empirical question: What …