ReviewFrontiers in psychology2018
Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing.
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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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54 authors.
David TrafimowDepartment of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States.
Valentin AmrheinZoological Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Corson N AreshenkoffCentre for Neuroscience Studies, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Carlos J Barrera-CausilFaculty of Applied and Exact Sciences, Metropolitan Technological Institute, Medellín, Colombia.
Eric J BehSchool of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
Yusuf K BilgiçDepartment of Mathematics, State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, United States.
Roser BonoQuantitative Psychology Unit, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Michael T BradleyDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada.
William M BriggsIndependent Researcher, New York, NY, United States.
Héctor A Cepeda-FreyreSchool of Psychology, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
Sergio E ChaigneauCenter for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.
Daniel R CioccaOncology Laboratory, Instituto de Medicina y Biologia Experimental de Cuyo, CCT CONICET Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina.
Juan C CorreaSchool of Statistics, Faculty of Sciences, National University of Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.
Denis CousineauSchool of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Michiel R de BoerDepartment of Health Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Subhra S DharDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
Igor DolgovDepartment of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States.
Juana Gómez-BenitoQuantitative Psychology Unit, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Marian GrendarBiomedical Center Martin, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Martin, Slovakia.
James W GriceDepartment of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States.
Martin E Guerrero-GimenezOncology Laboratory, Instituto de Medicina y Biologia Experimental de Cuyo, CCT CONICET Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina.
Andrés GutiérrezFaculty of Statistics, Saint Thomas University, Bogotá, Colombia.
Tania B Huedo-MedinaDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health, Agriculture, and Natural Resources, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States.
Klaus JaffeDepartamento de Biología de Organismos, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela.
Armina JanyanDepartment of Cognitive Science and Psychology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Ali KarimnezhadDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Fränzi Korner-NievergeltSwiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland.
Koji KosugiSchool of Human Sciences, Senshu University, Kawasaki, Japan.
Martin LachmairMultimodal Interaction Lab, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany.
Rubén D LedesmaConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Roberto LimongiPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
Marco T LiuzzaDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, "Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Rosaria LombardoEconomics Department, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Capua, Italy.
Michael J MarksDepartment of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States.
Gunther MeinlschmidtDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Ladislas NalborczykUniversité Grenoble Alpes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LPNC, Grenoble, France.
Hung T NguyenDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States.
Raydonal OspinaComputational Statistics Laboratory (CAST), Department of Statistics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Jose D PerezgonzalezBusiness School, Massey University, Albany, New Zealand.
Roland PfisterDepartment of Psychology III, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Juan J RahonaMultimodal Interaction Lab, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany.
David A Rodríguez-MedinaSchool of Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Xavier RomãoCONSTRUCT-LESE, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Susana Ruiz-FernándezMultimodal Interaction Lab, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany.
Isabel SuarezDepartment of Psychology, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
Marion TegethoffDivision of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Mauricio TejoFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile.
Rens van de SchootDepartment of Methods and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Ivan I VankovDepartment of Cognitive Science and Psychology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Santiago Velasco-ForeroMINES Paristech, PSL Research University, Centre for Mathematical Morphology, Paris, France.
Tonghui WangDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States.
Yuki YamadaFaculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Felipe C M ZoppinoOncology Laboratory, Instituto de Medicina y Biologia Experimental de Cuyo, CCT CONICET Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina.
Fernando Marmolejo-RamosSchool of Psychology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
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Abstract
We argue that making accept/reject decisions on scientific hypotheses, including a recent call for changing the canonical alpha level from
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