Monthly Archives: June 2024

Guest Post: Christian Hennig: “Statistical tests in five random research papers of 2024, and related thoughts on the ‘don’t say significant’ initiative”

Posted on June 25, 2024 by Mayo

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Professor Christian Hennig
Department of Statistical Sciences “Paolo Fortunati”
University of Bologna

[An earlier post by C. Hennig on this topic:  Jan 9, 2022: The ASA controversy on P-values as an illustration of the difficulty of statistics]

Statistical tests in five random research papers of 2024, and related thoughts on the “don’t say significant” initiative

This text follows an invitation to write on “abandon statistical significance 5 years on”, so I decided to do a tiny bit of empirical research. I had a look at five new papers listed on May 17 on the “Research Articles” site of Scientific Reports. I chose the most recent five papers when I looked without being selective. As I “sampled” papers for a general impression, I don’t want this to be a criticism of particular papers or authors, however in the interest of transparency, the doi addresses of the papers are: Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Andrea Saltelli: Analytic flexibility: a badly kept secret? (thoughts on “abandon statistical significance 5 years on”)

Posted on June 15, 2024 by Mayo
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Professor Andrea Saltelli
UPF Barcelona School of Management, Barcelona, Spain, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

[An earlier post by A. Saltelli on this topic: Nov 22, 2019: A. Saltelli (Guest post): What can we learn from the debate on statistical significance?]

Analytic flexibility: a badly kept secret?

In a previous post in this blog I expressed concern about a loss of trust that could incur the activity of scientific quantification – as practiced in several discipline – unless some technical and normative element of crisis could be managed. The piece warned that the phenomenon could lead to “a decline of public trust in the findings of science”. Five years and one pandemic later, we may wonder if the danger has indeed materialized. Continue reading →

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2-4 yr review: Commentaries on my Editorial: several are published

Posted on June 4, 2024 by Mayo

I’m reblogging reader commentaries on my editorial, “The statistics wars and intellectual conflicts of interest“. 3 are published in Conservation Biology; a 4th, by Lakens, is in the Journal of the International Society of Physiotherapy.  This post was first published on May 15, 2022. Thus, “soon to be” refers to the past. Share your remarks in the comments. Continue reading →

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