Justify your alpha

By Daniël Lakens, Federico Adolfi, Casper J. Albers, Farid Anvari, M. Apps, Shlomo Engelson Argamon, T. Baguley, R. Becker, S. Benning, Daniel E. Bradford and 78 more. Nature Human Behaviour, 2018

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research

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Best practices for the human evaluation of automatically generated text (2019, background): “…remedies for this particular problem exist, one being an application of the simple Bonferroni correction, which amounts to lowering the signiﬁcance threshold α —commonly .05, but see for example Benjamin et al. (2018) and Lakens et al. (2018)—to α/m , where m is the number of hypotheses tested.”
Three Recommendations for Improving the Use of p-Values (2019, background): “Moreover, use of a fixed level discourages consideration of crucial elements of the problem, such as the magnitude of the effect, costs of false positives and false negatives (or more generally the loss function in a decision), prior information, etc. (Lakens et al. 2018; Bayarri et al. 2016).”
Abandon Statistical Significance (2017, background): “ting p-values or other purely statistical measures continuously and thus stands in direct opposition to the threshold-based status quo and proposal of Benjamin et al. (2018) (and, for that matter, of Lakens et al. (2018)). Where we may perhaps diﬀer from this literature is in two ways. First, we sug”
Rejecting or Accepting Parameter Values in Bayesian Estimation (2018, positive): “Regardless of the availability of utilities, the decision criteria should be established before the data are observed, to prevent biased decisions (e.g., Lakens et al., 2017).”
The Replication Crisis in Psychology: An Overview for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (2019, result): “…NHST sympathizers have proposed a much lower threshold of p .005 (Benjamin et al., 2018), whereas others have argued that the alpha level in NHST ought to be deliberately determined and justified in the context of each particular study, similar to other analytical decisions (Lakens et al., 2018).”