Podcasts Science Everything Hertz 49: War and p's

49: War and p's

Published: July 31, 2017, 8 p.m.

In this episode Dan and James discuss a forthcoming paper that's causing a bit of a stir by proposing that biobehavioral scientists should use a 0.005 p-value statistical significance threshold instead of 0.05.

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Stuff they cover:

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  • A summary of the paper and how they decided on 0.005.
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  • Whether raising the threshold the best way to improve reproducibility?
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  • Is 0.005 too stringent?
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  • Would this new threshold unfairly favour \u201csuper\u201d labs?
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  • If we keep shifting the number does any threshold really matter?
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  • Dan and James\u2019 first impressions of the paper
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  • A crash course on Mediterranean taxation systems
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  • What would a 0.005 threshold practically mean for researchers?
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Links
\nThe paper https://osf.io/mky9j/
\nENIGMA consortium http://enigma.ini.usc.edu

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Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

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