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Title    Social Science Journal 'Bans' Use of p-values
Date    Sunday April 19 2015, @12:37PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the sometimes-you-DO-have-a-nail dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/04/19/0157230

kaszz writes:

The journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology announced in a February editorial that researchers who submit studies for publication would not be allowed to use common statistical methods, including p-values. While p-values are routinely misused in scientific literature, many researchers who understand its proper role are upset about the ban. Biostatistician Steven Goodman said, "This might be a case in which the cure is worse than the disease. The goal should be the intelligent use of statistics. If the journal is going to take away a tool, however misused, they need to substitute it with something more meaningful."

Links

  1. "kaszz" - https://soylentnews.org/~kaszz/
  2. "a February editorial" - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2015.1012991#abstract
  3. "would not be allowed to use common statistical methods" - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-perturbed-by-loss-of-stat-tool-to-sift-research-fudge-from-fact/
  4. "p-values" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value
  5. "Steven Goodman" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Goodman

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