Manfred comments on Journal 'Basic and Applied Psychology' bans p<0.05 and 95% confidence intervals - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Jonathan_Graehl 25 February 2015 05:15PM

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Comment author: Dan_Moore 26 February 2015 02:42:30AM 0 points [-]

What about p = 0.001?

Comment author: Manfred 26 February 2015 06:07:28AM *  0 points [-]

As they explain, at the link, they are realio trulio banning null hypothesis significance testing. This is neat!

Comment author: Dan_Moore 26 February 2015 02:37:08PM 1 point [-]

Neat in what sense? (i.e., in a popcorn-worthy or a methodological progress sense?)

Also, does this ban make sense for the entire field of psychology, or perhaps just for 'feelings' parameters that range from icky to awesome?