Justify your alpha
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Authors
Lakens, D
Adolfi, FG
Albers, CJ
Anvari, F
Apps, MAJ
Argamon, SE
Baguley, T
Becker, RB
Benning, SD
Bradford, DE
Buchanan, EM
Caldwell, AR
Van Calster, B
Carlsson, R
Chen, SC
Chung, B
Colling, LJ
Collins, GS
Crook, Z
Cross, ES
Daniels, S
Danielsson, H
Debruine, L
Dunleavy, DJ
Earp, BD
Feist, MI
Ferrell, JD
Field, JG
Fox, NW
Friesen, A
Gomes, C
Gonzalez-Marquez, M
Grange, JA
Grieve, AP
Guggenberger, R
Grist, J
Van Harmelen, AL
Hasselman, F
Hochard, KD
Hoffarth, MR
Holmes, NP
Ingre, M
Isager, PM
Isotalus, HK
Johansson, C
Juszczyk, K
Kenny, DA
Khalil, AA
Konat, B
Lao, J
Larsen, EG
Lodder, GMA
Lukavský, J
Madan, CR
Manheim, D
Martin, SR
Martin, AE
Mayo, DG
McCarthy, RJ
McConway, K
McFarland, C
Nio, AQX
Nilsonne, G
De Oliveira, CL
De Xivry, JJO
Parsons, S
Pfuhl, G
Quinn, KA
Sakon, JJ
Saribay, SA
Schneider, IK
Selvaraju, M
Sjoerds, Z
Smith, SG
Smits, T
Spies, JR
Sreekumar, V
Steltenpohl, CN
Stenhouse, N
Świątkowski, W
Vadillo, MA
Van Assen, MALM
Williams, MN
Williams, SE
Williams, DR
Yarkoni, T
Ziano, I
Zwaan, RA
Publication Date
2018Journal Title
Nature Human Behaviour
ISSN
2397-3374
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
2
Issue
3
Pages
168-171
Type
Article
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Lakens, D., Adolfi, F., Albers, C., Anvari, F., Apps, M., Argamon, S., Baguley, T., et al. (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 2 (3), 168-171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x
Abstract
Benjamin et al. proposed changing the conventional “statistical significance” threshold (i.e.,the alpha level) from p ≤ .05 to p ≤ .005 for all novel claims with relatively low prior odds. They provided two arguments for why lowering the significance threshold would “immediately improve the reproducibility of scientific research.” First, a p-value near .05provides weak evidence for the alternative hypothesis. Second, under certain assumptions, an alpha of .05 leads to high false positive report probabilities (FPRP2 ; the probability that a significant finding is a false positive)
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Royal Society (DH150176)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286595
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