Replication unreliability in psychology: elusive phenomena or elusive statistical power?

The focus of this paper is to analyse whether the unreliability of results related to certain controversial psychological phenomena may be a consequence of their low statistical power.Applying the Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing (NHST), still the widest used statistical approach, unreliability d...

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Main Author: Patrizio E Tressoldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00218/full