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If you've got an effect, test its significance; if you've got a weak effect, do a meta-analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

John F. Kihlstrom
John F. Kihlstrom
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650 kihlstrm@cogsci.berkeley.edu socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrom
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Abstract

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Statistical significance testing has its problems, but so do the alternatives that are proposed; and the alternatives may be both more cumbersome and less informative. Significance tests remain legitimate aspects of the rhetoric of scientific persuasion.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1998, pp. 205 - 206
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press