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==Further reading== * Imbens, Guido W. 2021. "[https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.35.3.157 Statistical Significance, ''p''-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty]." ''Journal of Economic Perspectives'' 35 (3): 157β74. * Lydia Denworth, "A Significant Problem: Standard scientific methods are under fire. Will anything change?", ''[[Scientific American]]'', vol. 321, no. 4 (October 2019), pp. 62β67. "The use of [[p value|''p'' values]] for nearly a century [since 1925] to determine statistical significance of [[experiment]]al results has contributed to an illusion of [[certainty]] and [to] [[reproducibility|reproducibility crises]] in many [[science|scientific fields]]. There is growing determination to reform statistical analysis... Some [researchers] suggest changing statistical methods, whereas others would do away with a threshold for defining "significant" results." (p. 63.) *[[Stephen Ziliak|Ziliak, Stephen]] and [[Deirdre McCloskey]] (2008), ''[http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=186351 The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608082545/http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=186351 |date=2010-06-08 }}''. Ann Arbor, [[University of Michigan Press]], 2009. {{isbn|978-0-472-07007-7}}. Reviews and reception: [http://blogs.roosevelt.edu/sziliak/cult-of-statistical-significance/ (compiled by Ziliak)] *{{cite journal | last1 = Thompson | first1 = Bruce | year = 2004 | title = The "significance" crisis in psychology and education | journal = Journal of Socio-Economics | volume = 33 | issue = 5| pages = 607β613 | doi=10.1016/j.socec.2004.09.034}} *Chow, Siu L., (1996). ''[http://websites.psychology.uwa.edu.au/labs/cogscience/Publications/Lewandowsky-Mayberry%20(1996)%20-%20Critics%20Rebuttted.pdf Statistical Significance: Rationale, Validity and Utility] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203024039/http://websites.psychology.uwa.edu.au/labs/cogscience/Publications/Lewandowsky-Mayberry%20(1996)%20-%20Critics%20Rebuttted.pdf |date=2013-12-03 }},'' Volume 1 of series ''Introducing Statistical Methods,'' Sage Publications Ltd, {{isbn|978-0-7619-5205-3}} β argues that statistical significance is useful in certain circumstances. *Kline, Rex, (2004). ''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53288011 Beyond Significance Testing: Reforming Data Analysis Methods in Behavioral Research]'' Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. *[[Regina Nuzzo|Nuzzo, Regina]] (2014). [https://web.archive.org/web/20140213062055/http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700#/b5 Scientific method: Statistical errors]. ''Nature'' Vol. 506, p. 150-152 (open access). Highlights common misunderstandings about the p value. *Cohen, Joseph (1994). [http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun/PP279_Cohen1.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713081635/http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun/PP279_Cohen1.pdf |date=2017-07-13 }}. The earth is round (p<.05). American Psychologist. Vol 49, p. 997-1003. Reviews problems with null hypothesis statistical testing. *{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1038/d41586-019-00857-9| pmid = 30894741| volume = 567| issue = 7748| pages = 305β307| last1 = Amrhein| first1 = Valentin| last2 = Greenland| first2 = Sander| last3 = McShane| first3 = Blake| title = Scientists rise up against statistical significance| journal = Nature| date = 2019-03-20| bibcode = 2019Natur.567..305A| doi-access = free}}
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