{"id":249,"date":"2015-02-27T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T20:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2015-03-01T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T22:16:01","slug":"banning-the-null-hypothesis-significance-testing-procedure-nhstp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Banning the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Procedure (NHSTP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) is the first psychology journal to outright <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01973533.2015.1012991\">ban NHSTP<\/a>. \u00a0The link to the short editorial tells the story, but you can certainly find much more on the subject from other sources. \u00a0Bayesian procedures are neither\u00a0banned nor required. \u00a0The idea is that strong descriptive statistics, effect sizes, and large, stable samples will produce better (i.e. more &#8220;honest&#8221;) research than simply having an arbitrary cut-off point for accepting effects from samples based on a standard distribution. \u00a0BASP is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scimagojr.com\/journalsearch.php?q=12088&amp;tip=sid&amp;clean=0\">not a high impact journal<\/a> per se (and I&#8217;m not a social psychologist), but this gutsy move is interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Will others follow suit? \u00a0Can the big journals pull away from NHSTP entrenchment? \u00a0Should they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) is the first psychology journal to outright ban NHSTP. \u00a0The link to the short editorial tells the story, but you can certainly find much more on the subject from other sources. \u00a0Bayesian procedures are neither\u00a0banned nor required. \u00a0The idea is that strong descriptive statistics,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Banning the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Procedure (NHSTP)","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[77,76,75],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methods","category-ramblings","tag-bayesian","tag-journals","tag-null-hypothesis-significance-tests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51adQ-41","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}