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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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Autores principales: Trafimow, David, Amrhein, Valentin, Areshenkoff, Corson N., Barrera-Causil, Carlos J., Beh, Eric J., Bilgiç, Yusuf K., Bono, Roser, Bradley, Michael T., Briggs, William M., Cepeda-Freyre, Héctor A., Chaigneau, Sergio E., Ciocca, Daniel R., Correa, Juan C., Cousineau, Denis, de Boer, Michiel R., Dhar, Subhra S., Dolgov, Igor, Gómez-Benito, Juana, Grendar, Marian, Grice, James W., Guerrero-Gimenez, Martin E., Gutiérrez, Andrés, Huedo-Medina, Tania B., Jaffe, Klaus, Janyan, Armina, Karimnezhad, Ali, Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi, Kosugi, Koji, Lachmair, Martin, Ledesma, Rubén D., Limongi, Roberto, Liuzza, Marco T., Lombardo, Rosaria, Marks, Michael J., Meinlschmidt, Gunther, Nalborczyk, Ladislas, Nguyen, Hung T., Ospina, Raydonal, Perezgonzalez, Jose D., Pfister, Roland, Rahona, Juan J., Rodríguez-Medina, David A., Romão, Xavier, Ruiz-Fernández, Susana, Suarez, Isabel, Tegethoff, Marion, Tejo, Mauricio, van de Schoot, Rens, Vankov, Ivan I., Velasco-Forero, Santiago, Wang, Tonghui, Yamada, Yuki, Zoppino, Felipe C. M., Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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