New-day statistical thinking: A bold proposal for a radical change in practices

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: van Witteloostuijn, Arjen
• 署名单位: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-019-00288-8
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 274-278
• 关键词: null hypothesis testing; statistical significance; Questionable research practices

摘要

In this commentary, I argue why we should stop engaging in null hypothesis statistical significance testing altogether. Artificial and misleading it may be, but we know how to play the p value threshold and null hypothesis-testing game. We feel secure; we love the certainty. The fly in the ointment is that the conventions have led to questionable research practices. Wasserstein, Schirm, & Lazar (Am Stat 73(sup1):1-19, 2019. 10.1080/00031305.2019.1583913) explain why, in their thought-provoking editorial introducing a special issue of The American Statistician: As 'statistical significance' is used less, statistical thinking will be used more. Perhaps we empirical researchers can together find a way to work ourselves out of the straitjacket that binds us.