The earth is flat (p>0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research

Valentin Amrhein, Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt, Tobias Roth · 2017
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3544

Abstract

The widespread use of ‘statistical significance’ as a license for making a claim of a scientific finding leads to considerable distortion of the scientific process (according to the American Statistical Association). We review why degrading

Reference

Valentin Amrhein, Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt, Tobias Roth “The earth is flat (p\textgreater0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research” (2017) DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3544

@Article{amrhein2017,
  title = {The earth is flat (p\textgreater0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research},
  volume = {5},
  issn = {2167-8359},
  shorttitle = {The earth is flat (p\textgreater0.05)},
  url = {https://peerj.com/articles/3544},
  doi = {10.7717/peerj.3544},
  abstract = {The widespread use of ‘statistical significance’ as a license for making a claim of a scientific finding leads to considerable distortion of the scientific process (according to the American Statistical Association). We review why degrading},
  language = {en},
  urldate = {2020-01-07},
  journal = {PeerJ},
  author = {Amrhein, Valentin and Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi and Roth, Tobias},
  month = {jul},
  year = {2017},
  note = {ZSCC: 0000098},
  pages = {e3544}
}