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Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing
We argue that making accept/reject decisions on scientific hypotheses, including a recent call for changing the canonical alpha level from p = 0.05 to p = 0.005, is deleterious for the finding of new discoveries and the progress of science. Given that blanket and variable alpha levels both are probl...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5962803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29867666 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00699 |