Consumers of research should not be satisfied with statements that “X is effective”, or “Y has an effect”. Gwenae l Piaser Empirical science needs data. But all data are subject to random variation, ...

Yesterday’s article by Geoff Cumming, based on a very recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper, argued that “null hypothesis significance tests” (NHST) are flawed – and he is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Search engines and chatbots are easy to use. Databases such as gnomAD and ClinVar are comprehensive but come ...

I contend that there is a better way to correct the misuse of tests for statistical significance than by dispensing with them altogether (see V. Amrhein et al. Nature 567, 305–307; 2019). The ...

Many want to tighten significance testing at both ends; 3 of the 7 authors of the Button paper are also among the 72 on the Benjamin paper. Lowering the significance threshold alpha decreases FA and ...