Non-Standard Errors

Utz Weitzel, Michael Razen, Sebastian Neussüs, Michael Kirchler, Magnus Johannesson, Juergen Huber, Felix Holzmeister, Anna Dreber, Albert Menkveld and Javier Gil-Bazo
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Thomas P. Gehrig and Christian T. Brownlees

No 1303, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in sample estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation across researchers adds uncertainty: non-standard errors. To study them, we let 164 teams test six hypotheses on the same sample. We find that non-standard errors are sizeable, on par with standard errors. Their size (i) co-varies only weakly with team merits, reproducibility, or peer rating, (ii) declines significantly after peer-feedback, and (iii) is underestimated by participants.

Keywords: liquidity; non-standard errors; multi-analyst approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C18 G1 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-12
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