Re:What a debate about p-values shows about science
by carbocation on Monday October 02, 2017 @08:36PM
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Underpowered negative results are a class of potentially genuinely uninteresting results.
Interestingly, underpowered positive results are likely to be published, but unreproducible. That is, the ratio of false positives will be higher among underpowered studies. So, the literature of underpowered studies will be enriched for false positives.
So, underpowered results, whether positive or negative, are less interesting.
Interestingly, underpowered positive results are likely to be published, but unreproducible. That is, the ratio of false positives will be higher among underpowered studies. So, the literature of underpowered studies will be enriched for false positives.
So, underpowered results, whether positive or negative, are less interesting.