Reporting Practices and APA Editorial Policies Regarding Statistical Significance and Effect Size

By T. Vacha-haase, Johanna E. Nilsson, David R. Reetz, Teresa S. Lance, B. Thompson. 2000

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Statistics and Probability

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/99467b7db50d59daa8dfc542622949a1e6ddd60f

How researchers see this paper

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In Applied Psychology

1. Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis
2. Martin S. Hagger
3. R. Henson
4. B. Thompson
5. T. Vacha-haase
6. Tore Dybå
7. Dag I.K. Sjøberg
8. Ibrahim Al-Jubari

In General Health Professions

1. R. Henson
2. T. Vacha-haase
3. B. Thompson
4. Tore Dybå
5. Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis
6. Martin S. Hagger
7. Ken Kelley
8. Saiying Steenbergen-Hu

In Statistics and Probability

1. R. Henson
2. B. Thompson
3. T. Vacha-haase
4. K. Bird
5. Tore Dybå
6. Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis
7. Martin S. Hagger
8. Dag I.K. Sjøberg

Citations in the corpus

• Effect-Size Measures and Meta-Analytic Thinking in Counseling Psychology Research (2006, background): “Empirical studies have documented that this encouragement has changed the literature little (Vacha-Haase et al., 2000).”
• Assumptions in research in sport and exercise psychology (2009, background): “As a consequence, research methodologists have called upon researchers and journal editors to be equally demanding in including effect size statistics in psychological research (Thompson, 1999; Vacha-Haase, Nilssen, Reetz, Lance, & Thompson, 2000; Wilkinson, 1999).”
• A systematic review of effect size in software engineering experiments (2007, background): “In the behavioural sciences, it has been suggested that changes in editorial policies will be required before reporting effect sizes will become a matter of routine [13, 44 ].”
• Confidence Intervals for Effect Sizes in Analysis of Variance (2002, background): “Regarding confidence intervals, the APA Task Force emphasized that confidence intervals “should be given for any effect sizes involving principal outcomes” (Wilkinson & APA Task Force on Statistical Inference, 1999, p. 599, emphasis added). And the fifth edition of the APA (2001) Publication Manual ”
• How to Estimate and Interpret Various Effect Sizes (2004, background): “However, empirical studies of reporting practices indicate that in a surprising number of studies, authors report effects without clearly indicating exactly which effect is being presented (Kieffer, Reese, & Thompson, 2001; Vacha-Haase et al., 2000).”