Redefine statistical significance. (January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Benjamin, Daniel; Berger, James; Johannesson, Magnus; Nosek, Brian; Wagenmakers, E.-J.; Berk, Richard; Bollen, Kenneth; Brembs, Björn; Brown, Lawrence; Camerer, Colin; Cesarini, David; Chambers, Christopher; Clyde, Merlise; Cook, Thomas; De Boeck, Paul; Dienes, Zoltan; Dreber, Anna; Easwaran, Kenny; Efferson, Charles; Fehr, Ernst; Fidler, Fiona; Field, Andy; Forster, Malcolm; George, Edward; Gonzalez, Richard; Goodman, Steven; Green, Edwin; Green, Donald; Greenwald, Anthony; Hadfield, Jarrod; Hedges, Larry; Held, Leonhard; Hua Ho, Teck; Hoijtink, Herbert; Hruschka, Daniel; Imai, Kosuke; Imbens, Guido; Ioannidis, John; Jeon, Minjeong; Jones, James; Kirchler, Michael; Laibson, David; List, John; Little, Roderick; Lupia, Arthur; Machery, Edouard; Maxwell, Scott; McCarthy, Michael; Moore, Don; Morgan, Stephen; Munafó, Marcus; Nakagawa, Shinichi; Nyhan, Brendan; Parker, Timothy; Pericchi, Luis; Perugini, Marco; Rouder, Jeff; Rousseau, Judith; Savalei, Victoria; Schönbrodt, Felix; Sellke, Thomas; Sinclair, Betsy; Tingley, Dustin; Van Zandt, Trisha; Vazire, Simine; Watts, Duncan; Winship, Christopher; Wolpert, Robert; Xie, Yu; Young, Cristobal; Zinman, Jonathan; Johnson, Valen;
• Is Part Of: Nature human behaviour. Volume 2:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 6
• Page End: 10
• Publication Date: 2018-01
• Subjects: Human behavior -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Sociology -- Periodicals; 300
• DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2397-3374

Abstract

We propose to change the defaultP -value threshold for statistical significance from 0.05 to 0.005 for claims of new discoveries.