Redefine statistical significance

Daniel J. Benjamin (), James O. Berger, Magnus Johannesson, Brian A. Nosek, E.-J. Wagenmakers, Richard Berk, Kenneth A. Bollen, Björn Brembs, Lawrence Brown, Colin Camerer (), David Cesarini, Christopher D. Chambers, Merlise Clyde, Thomas D. Cook, Paul De Boeck, Zoltan Dienes, Anna Dreber, Kenny Easwaran, Charles Efferson, Ernst Fehr, Fiona Fidler, Andy P. Field, Malcolm Forster, Edward I. George, Richard Gonzalez, Steven Goodman, Edwin Green, Donald P. Green, Anthony G. Greenwald, Jarrod D. Hadfield, Larry V. Hedges, Leonhard Held, Teck Hua Ho, Herbert Hoijtink, Daniel J. Hruschka, Kosuke Imai, Guido Imbens, John P. A. Ioannidis, Minjeong Jeon, James Holland Jones, Michael Kirchler, David Laibson, John List, Roderick Little, Arthur Lupia, Edouard Machery, Scott E. Maxwell, Michael McCarthy, Don A. Moore, Stephen L. Morgan, Marcus Munafó, Shinichi Nakagawa, Brendan Nyhan, Timothy H. Parker, Luis Pericchi, Marco Perugini, Jeff Rouder, Judith Rousseau, Victoria Savalei, Felix D. Schönbrodt, Thomas Sellke, Betsy Sinclair, Dustin Tingley, Trisha Van Zandt, Simine Vazire, Duncan J. Watts, Christopher Winship, Robert L. Wolpert, Yu Xie, Cristobal Young, Jonathan Zinman and Valen E. Johnson ()
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James O. Berger: Duke University
Brian A. Nosek: University of Virginia
E.-J. Wagenmakers: University of Amsterdam
Richard Berk: University of Pennsylvania
Kenneth A. Bollen: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Björn Brembs: Universität Regensburg
Lawrence Brown: University of Pennsylvania
Christopher D. Chambers: Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Merlise Clyde: Duke University
Thomas D. Cook: Northwestern University
Paul De Boeck: Ohio State University
Zoltan Dienes: University of Sussex
Kenny Easwaran: Texas A&M University
Charles Efferson: Royal Holloway University of London
Fiona Fidler: University of Melbourne
Andy P. Field: University of Sussex
Malcolm Forster: University of Wisconsin — Madison
Edward I. George: University of Pennsylvania
Richard Gonzalez: University of Michigan
Steven Goodman: Stanford University, General Medical Disciplines
Edwin Green: Rutgers University
Donald P. Green: Columbia University in the City of New York
Anthony G. Greenwald: University of Washington
Jarrod D. Hadfield: The University of Edinburgh
Larry V. Hedges: Northwestern University
Leonhard Held: University of Zurich
Teck Hua Ho: National University of Singapore
Herbert Hoijtink: Universiteit Utrecht
Daniel J. Hruschka: Arizona State University
Kosuke Imai: Princeton University
John P. A. Ioannidis: Stanford University
Minjeong Jeon: University of California
James Holland Jones: Imperial College London
Michael Kirchler: University of Innsbruck and University of Gothenburg
Roderick Little: University of Michigan
Edouard Machery: University of Pittsburgh
Scott E. Maxwell: University of Notre Dame
Michael McCarthy: University of Melbourne
Don A. Moore: University of California at Berkeley
Stephen L. Morgan: Johns Hopkins University
Marcus Munafó: University of Bristol
Shinichi Nakagawa: University of New South Wales
Brendan Nyhan: Dartmouth College
Timothy H. Parker: Whitman College
Luis Pericchi: University of Puerto Rico
Marco Perugini: University of Milan-Bicocca
Jeff Rouder: University of California
Judith Rousseau: Université Paris Dauphine
Victoria Savalei: The University of British Columbia
Felix D. Schönbrodt: Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Thomas Sellke: Purdue University
Betsy Sinclair: Washington University in St. Louis
Dustin Tingley: Harvard University
Trisha Van Zandt: Ohio State University
Simine Vazire: University of California
Duncan J. Watts: Microsoft Research
Christopher Winship: Harvard University
Robert L. Wolpert: Duke University
Yu Xie: Princeton University
Cristobal Young: Stanford University
Valen E. Johnson: Texas A&M University

Nature Human Behaviour, 2018, vol. 2, issue 1, 6-10

Abstract: We propose to change the default P-value threshold for statistical significance from 0.05 to 0.005 for claims of new discoveries.

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