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The Psychological Reality of the Learned 'P < .05' Boundary

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العنوان: The Psychological Reality of the Learned 'P < .05' Boundary
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: V. N. Vimal Rao (ORCID 0000-0001-8295-3080), Jeffrey K. Bye, Sashank Varma
المصدر: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 2024 9.
الإتاحة: Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-460-1700; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 12
تاريخ النشر: 2024
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Statistical Analysis, Testing, Statistical Significance, Graduate Students, Psychology, Classification, Meta Analysis, Replication (Evaluation), Training, Hypothesis Testing
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-024-00553-x
تدمد: 2365-7464
مستخلص: The 0.05 boundary within Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing (NHST) "has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move" (to quote Douglas Adams). Here, we move past meta-scientific arguments and ask an empirical question: What is the psychological standing of the 0.05 boundary for statistical significance? We find that graduate students in the psychological sciences show a "boundary effect" when relating p-values across 0.05. We propose this psychological boundary is learned through statistical training in NHST and reading a scientific literature replete with "statistical significance". Consistent with this proposal, undergraduates do not show the same sensitivity to the 0.05 boundary. Additionally, the size of a graduate student's boundary effect is not associated with their explicit endorsement of questionable research practices. These findings suggest that training creates distortions in initial processing of p-values, but these might be dampened through scientific processes operating over longer timescales.
Abstractor: As Provided
ملاحظات: https://osf.io/jfkrp
Entry Date: 2024
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1423266
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC
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تدمد:2365-7464
DOI:10.1186/s41235-024-00553-x