Confidence intervals are a more useful complement to nonsignificant tests than are power calculations

By N. Colegrave, Graeme D. Ruxton. 2003

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Male preference for female foot colour in the socially monogamous blue-footed booby, Sula nebouxii (2005, unknown): “The confidence intervals of effect sizes are reported ( Colegrave & Ruxton 2003 ).”
A Comprehensive Review of Effect Size Reporting and Interpreting Practices in Academic Journals in Education and Psychology. (2010, methodology): “For more discussion about the misuse and misinterpretation of post hoc power analysis, see Colegravea and Ruxton (2003); Hoenig and Heisey (2001); Sun, Pan, and Wang (2009); Thomas (1997); and Yuan and Maxwell (2005).”
Spatial distribution and environmental correlates of Australian snubfin and Indo‐Pacific humpback dolphins (2006, methodology): “Following suggestions on presentation and interpreta- tion of statistical results by Anderson et al. (2001) and Colegrave and Ruxton (2003), observed effect sizes (i.e. difference between means) and Mantel coefficients are reported with their corresponding confidence intervals and p-values.”
Negotiation over offspring care?--a positive response to partner-provisioning rate in great tits (2006, unknown): “It is difficult to prove the null hypothesis because the confidence intervals are fairly large with respect to the mean call rate (Colegrave and Ruxton, 2003).”
Wild bee pollinators provide the majority of crop visitation across land‐use gradients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, USA (2007, methodology): “Furthermore, for our 2005 watermelon data set we considered the range of values for the number of wild bee visits per flower per day that were included within the 95% confidence intervals for the slope in single regressions against each of our metrics of woodland cover (this approach is preferable t”
Can nudges be transparent and yet effective (2018, unknown): “Although we conducted a power analysis prior to the experiment, we agree with Colegrave and Ruxton (2003) that confidence intervals are more informative than observed power in case of insignificant tests.”
Classification accuracy comparison: hypothesis tests and the use of confidence intervals in evaluations of difference, equivalence and non-inferiority (2009, methodology): “The confidence interval provides a summary of the plausible sizes of the difference in accuracy that are supported by the data (Aberson, 2002; Colegrave and Ruxton, 2003; Trout et al., 2007).”
Territory and group sizes in Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber): echoes of settlement and reproduction? (2005, background): “As advocated by Colegrave and Ruxton (2003), all fully reported non-significant results are provided with 95% confidence intervals (denoted as CI).”
Are human preferences for facial symmetry focused on signals of developmental instability (2004, background): “The question of biological significance is therefore relevent here (Colegrave and Ruxton, 2003).”