Michael Lew has received funding from the NHMRC. Yesterday’s article by Geoff Cumming, based on a very recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper, argued that “null hypothesis ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer ...

A test of statistical significance addresses the question, How likely is a result, assuming the null hypotheses to be true. Randomness, a central assumption underlying commonly used tests of ...

Despite its widespread use in evaluation data analysis, statistical testing has come under persistent criticism resulting in calls for its rethinking, and even possible elimination (Carver, 1978, 1993 ...

Statistical significance is a critical concept in data analysis and research. In essence, it’s a measure that allows researchers to assess whether the results of an experiment or study are due to ...

Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public's trust in science, old ...

In the middle of the 20 th century, the field of psychology had a problem. In the wake of the Manhattan Project and in the early days of the space race, the so-called “hard sciences” were producing ...

I contend that there is a better way to correct the misuse of tests for statistical significance than by dispensing with them altogether (see V. Amrhein et al. Nature 567, 305–307; 2019). The ...

Klare Daten [clear data] ­— Professor Wulf-Uwe Meyer, University of Bielefeld, Germany, ca. 1980, upon surveying experimental findings prior to running inferential statistics; which then, of course, ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has ...