Statistical Significance and the Dichotomization of Evidence

By Blakeley B. McShane, David Gal. 2017

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability

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Abandon Statistical Significance (2017, background): “Consequently, low replication rates are to be expected given existing scientiﬁc practices (Ioannidis, 2005; Smaldino and McElreath, 2016), and calls for reform, which are not new (see, for example, Meehl (1978)), have become insistent.”
Do energy efficiency policies save energy? A new approach based on energy policy indicators (in the EU Member States) (2020, unknown): “…and “ scientific conclusions and business or policy decisions should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold ” (see also McShane and Gal (2017), Amrhein et al. (2019), and most of the contributions to the 2019 special issue of The American Statistician “ Statistical…”
Behavioural Insights and (Un)healthy Dietary Choices: a Review of Current Evidence (2018, background): “A good deal of the empirical research reviewed in this report is explorative, based on small samples and therefore prone to provide false-positive results (Gelman 2017; McShane and Gal 2017).”
Coup de Grâce for a Tough Old Bull: “Statistically Significant” Expires (2019, background): “Some authors ascribe the problem to human cognitive biases that have been created or aggravated by elementary statistical training (McShane and Gal 2017; Greenland 2017).”
Valid P-Values Behave Exactly as They Should: Some Misleading Criticisms of P-Values and Their Resolution With S-Values (2019, background): “…that rates of renal adverse events among infants “were not different between the ibuprofen (+/–acetaminophen) and acetaminophen-only groups,” displaying a common type of nullistic cognitive blindness (McShane and Gal 2017; Greenland 2017) to the practical uninformativeness of the quoted results.”