Monthly Archives: August 2014

False discoveries everywhere

Posted on August 19, 2014 by lstake

Since John Ioannidis published a paper in 2005 provocatively titled Why Most Published Research Findings are False, the general public and also researchers have gained a greater awareness of the unreliability of scientific discoveries based on “a single study assessed by formal … Continue reading →

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Is two still the magic number?

Posted on August 16, 2014 by lstake

When doing data analysis, we have come to regard two as the threshold that a t-statistic must clear in order to declare a variable statistically significant. As most readers will know, this critical value ensures a 5% level of significance given a … Continue reading →

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