In an article in the journal _Royal Society Open Science_, David Colquhoun says that if scientists use p=0.05 to suggest that they have made a discovery, they will be wrong at least 30% of the time. If, as is often the case, experiments are underpowered, [they] will be wrong most of the time. To avoid this problem, he says that scientists *Should never, ever, use the word ‘significant’ in a paper. It is arbitrary, and, as we have seen, deeply misleading. *If they want to avoid making fools of themselves very often, should not regard anything greater than p
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:14:40 +0000
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