Despite frequent calls for the overhaul of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), this controversial procedure remains ubiquitous in behavioral, social and biomedical teaching and research.

Recent developments in psychology (e.g., Nuzzo, 2014; Trafimow, 2014; Woolston, 2015a) are showing apparently reasonable but inherently flawed positions against data testing techniques (often called ...

In statistics, one always tries to verify the results. One of the most well-known ways of doing this by using statistical significance testing methods. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the ...

I contend that there is a better way to correct the misuse of tests for statistical significance than by dispensing with them altogether (see V. Amrhein et al. Nature 567, 305–307; 2019). The ...

Michael Lew has received funding from the NHMRC. Yesterday’s article by Geoff Cumming, based on a very recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Science paper, argued that “null hypothesis ...

Statistical ideas behind the analysis of experiments related to crop composition and the genetic factors underlying composition are discussed. The emphasis is on concepts rather than statistical ...