The books Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Wheeler, 1976) and Damned Lies and Statistics (Best, 2001) have raised questions about whether statistics can be trusted. A number of educated people today, ...

It may be common knowledge that p < .05 indicates statistical significance. Psychology students (and others) are often taught that p < .05 means the probability (p) of rejecting the null hypothesis ...

In the middle of the 20 th century, the field of psychology had a problem. In the wake of the Manhattan Project and in the early days of the space race, the so-called “hard sciences” were producing ...

My print column this week examines the concept of statistical significance -- a concept that the Supreme Court recently weighed in on, but that remains elusive even to some scientists who use it to ...

Non-parametric tests are used when standard assumptions are not available. These tests don’t rely on distributions, often ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer charged with quality control and a British lady insisting she can taste ...

A new paper published in European Science Editing highlights the growing psychological strain on researchers driven by pressure to obtain statistically significant results in academic publishing.

Comprehensive guidelines on the presentation of statistical material in medical/dental journals have been published by Altman et al. elsewhere. 1 The following is a slightly adapted summary of those ...