Deleet comments on Original Research on Less Wrong - Less Wrong

21 Post author: lukeprog 29 October 2012 10:50PM

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Comment author: Deleet 30 October 2012 01:10:10PM 1 point [-]

I have made a habit out of ignoring p<.05 values when they are reported, unless its a special case where getting more subjects is too difficult or impossible.* I normally go with p<0.01 results unless its very easy to gather more subjects, in which case going with p<0.001 or lower is good.

  • For those cases, one can rely on repeated measurements over time of the same subjects over time. For instance, when comparing cross-country scores where the number of subjects is maxed out at 100-200. E.g. in The Spirit Level (book).