Monthly Archives: February 2019

Top journals love their p-values

Researchers love p-values, especially when they are significant. It has previously been demonstrated that there is a disproportionate number of positive or significant p-values. In other words, many reported p-values must be false. That is to say, they are associated with false-positive findings. In a recent article, Cristae & Ioannidis (2018) investigated the characteristics of p-values reported in figures and

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