Statcheck: Extract statistics from articles and recompute p values

post by morganism · 2017-04-24T23:07:39.135Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 1 comments

This is a link post for https://mbnuijten.com/statcheck/

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comment by morganism · 2017-04-24T23:10:08.427Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

"Unfortunately, there is evidence that roughly half of all published empirical psychology articles contain at least one inconsistent p-value, and around one in eight articles contain a grossly inconsistent p-value that makes a non-significant result seem significant, or vice versa. Often these reporting errors are in line with the researchers’ expectations, which means these errors introduce systematic bias "

If you are unfamiliar with R you can also make use of the point-and-click web app at http://statcheck.io. Here you can easily upload an article and download the statcheck results in a csv file.