Re: [tips] curious statistical reasoning

2014-12-12 Thread Paul Brandon
The other way to increase effect size would be to improve experimental control (procedure). That would be consistent with this being basically a pilot study. On Dec 12, 2014, at 8:02 AM, Christopher Green wrote: > Wow. In an era where repeated failures to replicate “sensational” > psychologic

Re: [tips] curious statistical reasoning

2014-12-12 Thread Christopher Green
Wow. In an era where repeated failures to replicate “sensational” psychological effects is all over the news, it is astonishing that any editor would have accepted this sloppy of argument (whether the can cite articles from the 1960s and ‘70s that used it as well or not). The solution to high Ty

RE: [tips] curious statistical reasoning

2014-12-11 Thread Rick Froman
/DrFroman -Original Message- From: Rick Froman [mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 5:00 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] curious statistical reasoning I think the main point is that this was basically designed to be a small

RE: [tips] curious statistical reasoning

2014-12-11 Thread Rick Froman
http://bit.ly/DrFroman -Original Message- From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 4:18 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] curious statistical reasoning Hi Seems like they could have gotten to the same point (perhaps)

RE: [tips] curious statistical reasoning

2014-12-11 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Seems like they could have gotten to the same point (perhaps) by using a directional hypothesis given points 1 & 2? Unless the .10 is directional and the non-directional p is .20? 3 does not make a lot of sense to me given p is sensitive to n? 4 might be an appropriate consideration given th