{"id":176,"date":"2006-12-06T18:43:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T17:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2010-04-15T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T13:42:33","slug":"the-difference-between-significant-and-not-significant-is-not-statistically-significant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Significant and Not Significant is Not Statistically Significant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINDLESS SIGNIFICANCE TESTING<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image178\" alt=\"pval\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/pval.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Some well-made points grow old while no one pays attention to them. One of the most embarrassing for social science is its categorical perception of p-values.<\/p>\n<p>Tender of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.columbia.edu\/~gelman\/blog\/\">kindred Web site<\/a> Andrew Gelman and Hal Stern have an article whose name says it all: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.columbia.edu\/%7Egelman\/research\/published\/signif4.pdf\">The Difference Between \u201cSignificant\u201d and \u201cNot Significant\u201d is not Itself Statistically Significant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OTHER RECOMMENDED READING<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/pages\/sn_arc97\/6_7_97\/bob1.htm\">nice Science News article<\/a> by Bruce Bower on the issue.<\/li>\n<li>Cohen, J. (1994). The earth is round (p < .05). American Psychologist, 49, 997-1003.<\/li>\n<li>Gigerenzer, G. (1993). <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagocdr.org\/cdrpubs\/pubrequest.asp?pubid=306\">The superego, the ego, and the id in statistical reasoning<\/a>. In G. Keren &#038; C. Lewis (Eds.), A handbook for data analysis in the behavioral sciences: Methodological issues (pp. 311-339). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gigerenzer, G. (2004). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de\/en\/institut\/dok\/full\/gg\/mindless\/mindless.pdf\">Mindless statistics<\/a>. The Journal of Socio-Economics, 33, 587\u2013606.<\/li>\n<li>Krantz, D. H. (1999), The null hypothesis testing controversy in psychology, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94, 1372-1381.<\/li>\n<li>Rozeboom, W. W. (1960).The fallacy of the null hypothesis significance test.  Psychological Bulletin, 57, 416-428.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Image credit: I made it in R<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINDLESS SIGNIFICANCE TESTING Some well-made points grow old while no one pays attention to them. One of the most embarrassing for social science is its categorical perception of p-values. Tender of kindred Web site Andrew Gelman and Hal Stern have an article whose name says it all: The Difference Between \u201cSignificant\u201d and \u201cNot Significant\u201d is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,4,74],"tags":[1208,70],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-encyclopedia","category-r","tag-r","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-2Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}