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If you've got an effect, test its significance; if you've got a weak effect, do a meta-analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

John F. Kihlstrom
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650 [email protected] socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrom

Abstract

Statistical significance testing has its problems, but so do the alternatives that are proposed; and the alternatives may be both more cumbersome and less informative. Significance tests remain legitimate aspects of the rhetoric of scientific persuasion.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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