Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"?

Re:Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"? by yosefzeev on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:16PM (#20964139)

I suspect if you take away tenure being based upon publication, you will find that many statistical measures become more honest. You can abolish statistical significance, but it won't stop the abuse of knowledge, which is the real problem here anyway.

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Re:Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"? by microcolonel on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:24PM (#20964230)

Pre-registration is becoming more popular, and I think it will have a massive positive effect w.r.t. abuse of low-grade statistical tests and thresholds.

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Re:Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"? by reubens on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:25PM (#20967709)

Could you expand on what you mean by the 'abuse of knowledge'?

I agree that the focus on this metric negatively influences research outcomes, which extends to university structuring, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on how this extends to abuse of knowledge in general.

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Re:Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"? by pathseeker on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:23PM (#20968015)

> Could you expand on what you mean by the 'abuse of knowledge'?

A nice way of saying "lying". Learning how to game the statistics (e.g. publish the 20th experiment that showed significance but fail to mention the other 19).

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Re:Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"? by mehrdadn on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:30PM (#20968756)

I think by knowledge they meant information asymmetry.

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