p-values

Many High-Quality Randomized Controlled Trials in Sports Physical Therapy Are Making False-Positive Claims of Treatment Effect: A Systematic Survey Chris Bleakley; Jonathan Reijgers; James M. Smoliga Objective To examine the risk of false-positive reporting within high-quality randomized...

How prior and p-value heuristics are used when interpreting data Ethan Hermer, Ashley A Irwin, Dominique G Roche, Roslyn Dakin Abstract Scientific conclusions are based on the ways that researchers interpret data, a process that is shaped by psychological and cultural factors. When...

Excerpt: Could the p-values in a paper be large because the researchers have conducted a careful power analysis? The argument goes like this: Researchers don’t want to be wasteful with their resources, so they do their best to predict the effect size that their experiment will yield. Once...

Abstract The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences with physical sciences at the top, social sciences at the bottom, and biological sciences in-between is nearly 200 years old. This order is intuitive and reflected in many features of academic life, but whether it reflects the “hardness” of...

I’ve been reading this 2013 study by Friedberg et al. Chronic fatigue self-management in primary care: a randomized trial. This isn’t a study of ME/CFS, but the paper claims that 39% of the 111 randomized participants did meet diagnostic criteria for CFS (Fukuda-criteria). I don’t think the...

An article from 2015 but might be of interest. https://theconversation.com/goodbye-p-value-is-it-time-to-let-go-of-one-of-sciences-most-fundamental-measures-38057

Somebody suggested to me that this might be of relevance to ME/CFS research. I'm not sure we really need to get into this depth in terms of some issues, but who knows. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3204791...

A long list of authors making this plea, http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00699/full