Monday, December 13, 2010

Gelman on statistical significance:
The short story is that if you screen for statistical significance when estimating small effects, you will necessarily overestimate the magnitudes of effects, sometimes by a huge amount...

And corrections for multiple comparisons will not solve the problem: such adjustments merely shift the threshold without resolving the problem of overestimation of small effects.

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