Assessing the Statistical Analyses Used in Basic and Applied Social Psychology After Their p-Value Ban

Ronald D. Fricker, Katherine Burke, Xiaoyan Han and William H. Woodall

The American Statistician, 2019, vol. 73, issue S1, 374-384

Abstract: In this article, we assess the 31 articles published in Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) in 2016, which is one full year after the BASP editors banned the use of inferential statistics. We discuss how the authors collected their data, how they reported and summarized their data, and how they used their data to reach conclusions. We found multiple instances of authors overstating conclusions beyond what the data would support if statistical significance had been considered. Readers would be largely unable to recognize this because the necessary information to do so was not readily available.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2018.1537892

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