The meaning of “significance” for different types of research [translated and annotated by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Denny Borsboom, Josine Verhagen, Rogier Kievit, Marjan Bakker, Angelique Cramer, Dora…
By A. D. Groot. 2014
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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Molecular Biology, Statistics and Probability
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- Pre-registration in social psychology—A discussion and suggested template (2016, methodology): “…a way to 1In fact, it has been argued that inferential statistics should only apply to confirmatory analyses in which clear a priori criteria are applied (de Groot, 1956/2014). reduce the e↵ects of publication bias (LeBel & Peters, 2011), pre-registration might eventually play a role here as well.”
- When to adjust alpha during multiple testing: a consideration of disjunction, conjunction, and individual testing (2021, background): “…rates should be considered on an automatic basis also forms part of an argument against the use of significance testing in exploratory research situations and in favour of the preregistration of analysis plans (e.g., de Groot, 2014; Forstmeier et al., 2017; Nosek et al., 2018, 2019, p. 816).”
- When Does HARKing Hurt? Identifying When Different Types of Undisclosed Post Hoc Hypothesizing Harm Scientific Progress (2017, methodology): “To illustrate HARKing’s preclusion of falsification, it is useful to consider the Texas sharpshooter analogy that is often used to describe this problem (e.g., de Groot, 2014; Wagenmakers, Wetzels, Borsboom, Kievit, & van der Maas, 2015).”