You say journal editors and academy presidents have called for researchers to interpret the substantive, as opposed to the statistical, significance of their results. Which editors exactly?

Paul Ellis

So far; Campbell (1982), Cummings (2007), Hambrick (1994), JEP (2003), Kendall (1997), La Greca (2005), Levant (1992), Lustig and Strauser (2004), Shaver (2006, 2008), Thompson (2002).

See also Wilkinson and the Taskforce on Statistical Inference (1999), the Publication Manual of the APA (2010, p.35), and the AERA’s Standards for Reporting (AERA 2006, p.10).

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One thought on “You say journal editors and academy presidents have called for researchers to interpret the substantive, as opposed to the statistical, significance of their results. Which editors exactly?”

  1. Isabel Gauthier February 27, 2011 / 8:12 am

    Notice that the new guidelines for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General are explicit on this question:

    “Authors are urged to consider reporting effect sizes and confidence intervals around them and to discuss the substantive significance of their results in addition to their statistical significance.”

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