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I am pretty surprised to see no discussion of statistical power in the article and very little mention in the comments here. To me, having more statistical pow
by arafa 7y ago
I am pretty surprised to see no discussion of statistical power in the article and very little mention in the comments here. To me, having more statistical power solves many of the issues mentioned in the article. Many of the rest can be handled with use of Bayesian priors, context-specific p-values thresholds (.01, .1, etc.), and replication.
There's decent working guidelines for statistical power, but a lot of the issues (especially around replication) I see are mainly due to sample sizes being too small to adequately detect effects, especially if those effects are small.
- edmundsauto 7y agoCan you recommend any texts, videos, or websites to learn more about statistical power? The term is quite overloaded in google.
- xenocyon 7y agoA quick 101: https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/power.html https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/power.html
- arafa 7y agoSee also this, for more specifics on the math involved: https://effectsizefaq.com/2010/05/31/what-is-statistical-power/ https://effectsizefaq.com/2010/05/31/what-is-statistical-pow... The basic idea is: Get more data, especially if you're measuring something subtle.