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The Ego has landed! The .05 level of statistical significance is soft (Fisher) rather than hard (Neyman/Pearson)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Lester E. Krueger
Lester E. Krueger
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1222 [email protected] www.cog.ohio-state.edu/people/cfaculty/krueger.html
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Abstract

Chow pays lip service (but not much more!) to Type I errors and thus opts for a hard (all-or-none) .05 level of significance (Superego of Neyman/Pearson theory; Gigerenzer 1993). Most working scientists disregard Type I errors and thus utilize a soft .05 level (Ego of Fisher; Gigerenzer 1993), which lets them report gradations of significance (e.g., p < .001).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 207 - 208
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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