This reminded me that not too long ago the short-lived experiment ended in APS's Psychological Science requiring reporting of p-rep (for probability of replication, a misnomer, as it turned out).
Paul On Apr 22, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: > I absolutely abhor the term "statistically reliable," which implies > that a replication attempt is likely to be successful. Whether a replication > attempt is likely to be successful is a function of the size of the effect, > sample size, and control of extraneous variables, not of the value of p for > prior research. > > Cheers, > > Karl L. Wuensch > > > -----Original Message----- > From: don allen [mailto:dap...@shaw.ca] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 5:28 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] Polling... > > Hi Marc- > > Not only do I abhor the term "highly significant" I also dislike the term > "significant". I always taught my students to use the term "statistically > reliable" instead. "significant" implies that the results are important. That > is a value judgement which should be made after careful consideration of a > whole host of non-statistical factors. There was also a paper published a > number of years ago (sorry, no reference and no access to the library right > now) which showed that people ascribed more value to results which were > labeled "significant" than those which were described as non-chance findings. > > -Don. > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: pcbernha...@frostburg.edu. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=25157 > or send a blank email to > leave-25157-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=25166 or send a blank email to leave-25166-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
